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Henry  W.   Longfellow. 


PREFACE. 

It  has  been  the  aim  of  the  compiler  of  this 
little  book  to  present  a  Dictionary  of  Poetical 
Quotations  which  will  be  a  ready  reference  to 
many  of  the  most  familiar  stanzas  and  lines 
of  the  chief  poets  of  the  English  language, 
with  a  few  selections  from  Continental  writers; 
and  also  some  less  familiar  selections  from 
more  modern  poets,  which  may  in  time  become 
classic,  or  which  at  least  have  a  contemporary 
interest.  Readers  of  English  literature  are 
aware  that  the  few  great  poets  of  our  language 
have  struck  perhaps  every  chord  of  human 
sentiment  capable  of  illustration  in  verse,  and 
even  these  few  have  borrowed  the  ideas,  and 
sometimes  almost  the  exact  words,  of  prede- 
cessors or  contemporaries. 

But  often  old  ideas  in  a  new  dress  are  wel- 
come to  readers  who  might  not  have  been 
attracted  by  the  old  forms ;  and  each  genera- 
tion has  its  peculiar  modes  of  expression  if  not 
its  new  lines  of  thought.  It  is  hoped  that  this 
mingling  of  the  old  and  the  new  will  not  be 
without  interest.  To  carry  out  the  plan  of 
iii 

40'7445 


IV  PREFACE. 

making  this  a  "handy"  dictionary  of  quotations 
and,  at  the  same  time,  as  comprehensive  as  the 
space  permitted,  it  has  been  necessary  to  conhne 
the  illustration  of  the  topics  selected  to  brief 
extracts  from  each  author.  Of  course,  in  all 
books  of  quotations  the  great  name  of  Shake- 
speare hlls  the  largest  space ;  and  the  compiler 
of  this  book,  as  well  as  all  students  of  Shake- 
speare, is  under  obligation  to  the  painstaking 
compilers  of  the  concordances  to  this  poet,  and 
especially  to  Mr.  Bartlett's  monumental  work. 
To  many  other  compilers  of  quotations,  espe- 
cially to  the  Poetical  Quotations  of  Anna  L. 
Ward  (published  by  Messrs.  T.  Y.  Crowell  & 
Co.),  the  author  is  under  obligations;  while 
he  has  made  an  independent  examination  of 
the  more  recent  poets,  as  well  as  many  of  the 
older  ones.  The  topics  illustrated  number 
2138,  selected  from  the  writings  of  255  authors. 
The  indexes,  which  will  be  found  full  and 
complete,  were  prepared  by  Mrs.  Grace  E. 
Powers,  who  has  also  rendered  valuable  assist- 
ance in  preparing  the  copy  for  the  press  and 
in  reading  the  proofs. 

G.  W.  P. 
Dorchester,  Mass., 
July,  1901. 


HANDY  DICTIONARY  OF   POETI- 
CAL QUOTATIONS. 


A. 
Abashed. 

Abash'd  the  devil  stood, 
And  felt  how  awful  goodness  is,  and  saw 
Virtue  in  her  shape  how  lovely. 

1  Milton:  Par.  Zos^  Bk.  iv.,  Line  846. 

Abbots. 

To  happy  convents  bosom'd  deep  in  vines, 
Where  slumber  abbots  purple  as  their  wines. 

2  Pope:  Dunciad,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  SOL 
Abdication. 

I  give  this  heavy  weight  from  off  my  head, 
And  this  unwieldy  sceptre  from  my  hand, 
The  pride  of  kingly  sway  from  out  my  heart; 
AVith  mine  own  tears  I  wash  away  ray  balm, 
AVith  mine  own  hands  I  give  away  my  crown, 
With  mine  own  tongue  deny  my  sacred  state. 
With  mine  own  breath  release  all  duteous  oaths. 

3  Shaks.  :  Richard  II.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  L 
AbdieL 

So  spake  the  seraph  Abdiel,  faithful  found; 
Among  the  faithless,  faithful  only  he. 

4  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  v.,  Line  896. 

1 


Z         DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Ability. 

I  profess  not  talking :  only  this, 
Let  each  man  do  his  best. 

5  SiiAKS. :  1  Henry  IV.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  2. 

Absence. 

What !  keep  a  week  away  !     Seven  days  and  nights  ? 
Eight  score  eiglit  hours?  and  lovers'  absent  hours, 
More  tedious  tlian  the  dial  eight  score  times? 
O  weary  reckoning  ! 

6  Shaks.  :  Othello,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 

Though  lost  to  sight,  to  memory  dear 
Thou  ever  wilt  remain. 

7  George  Linley:  Song,  TlioiKjh  Lost  to  S'kjIU. 

Condemn"'d  whole  years  in  absence  to  deplore. 
And  image  charms  he  must  behold  no  more. 

8  Pope:  Eloisa  to  A.,  Line  36L 

O  last  love  !     O  first  love  1 

My  love  with  the  true  heart, 

To  think  I  have  come  to  this  your  home. 

And  yet  —  we  are  apart ! 

9  Jean  Ingelow:  Sailing  Beyond  Seas. 

'Tis  said  that  absence  conquers  love ; 

But  oh  believe  it  not ! 
I've  tried,  alas  !  its  power  to  prove. 

But  thou  art  not  forgot. 

Frederick  W.  Thomas:  Absence  Conquers 

10  Love. 

Abstinence. 

Against  diseases  here  the  strongest  fence 
Is  the  defensive  virtue  abstinence. 

11  Herrick:  Aph.  Abstinence. 


DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.         6 

Abuse. 

Thou  thread,  thou  thimble, 

Thou  yard,  three  quarters,  half-yard,  quarter,  nail, 
Thou  ilea,  thou  nit,  thou  winter  cricket  thou : 
Away  thou  rag,  thou  quantity,  thou  remnant. 

12  Shaks.  :  2a?«.  of  the  S.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

Accident. 

As  the  unthought-on  accident  is  guilty 
Of  what  we  wildly  do,  so  we  profess 
Ourselves  to  be  the  slaves  of  chance,  and  flies 
Of  every  wind  that  blows. 

13  Shaks.  :   Wint.  Tale,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

Wherein  I  spake  of  most  disastrous  chances, 
Of  moving  accidents  by  flood  and  field. 

14  Shaks.:   Othello,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

Our  wanton  accidents  take  root,  and  grow 
To  vaunt  themselves  God's  laws. 

Charles  Kingsley:  Saints'  Tragedy, 

15  Act  ii.,  Sc.  4. 

By  many  a  happy  accident. 

MiDDLETON  :  No  Wit,  No  Help,  Like  a  Wo- 

16  mans,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

Account. 

No  reckoning  made,  but  sent  to  my  account 
With  all  my  imperfections  on  my  head. 
17 

Accusation. 

Accuse  not  Nature :  she  hath  done  her  part ; 

Do  thou  but  thine. 

18  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  viii.,  Line  561. 


DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 


Achievements. 

Great  things  thro'  greatest  hazards  are  achiev'd, 
And  then  tliey  shine. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher  :  Loyal  Subject, 
19  Act  i.,  Sc.  5. 


Acquaintance. 

Should  auld  acquaintance  be  forgot, 

And  never  brought  to  mind  ? 
Should  auld  acquaintance  be  forgot, 

And  days  o'  lang  syne  ? 

20  Burns:  Auld  Lang  Syne. 

Action. 

Pleasure  and  action  make  the  hours  seem  short. 

21  Shaks.  :  Othello,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  3. 


Of  every  noble  action,  the  intent 

Is  to  give  worth  reward  —  vice  punishment. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher  :  Captain, 
22  Act  v.,  Sc.  5. 


Only  the  actions  of  the  just 

Smell  sweet  and  blossom  in  their  dust. 

James  Shirley  :  Death's  Final  Conquest, 
23  Sc.  iii. 


Who  sweeps  a  room  as  for  Thy  laws 

Makes  that  and  th'  action  fine. 
24  Herbert:   The  Elixir. 


DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.        O 

Activity. 

If  it  were  done,  when  'tis  done,  then  'twere  well 
It  were  done  quickly. 

25  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  i.,  Sc.  7. 

AVise  men  ne'er  sit  and  wail  their  loss, 

But  cheerly  seek  how  to  redress  their  harms. 

26  Shaks.  :  3  Henry  VI.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  4. 

Actors. 

A  strutting  player,  —  whose  conceit 
Lies  in  his  hamstring,  and  doth  think  it  rich 
To  hear  the  wooden  dialogue  and  sound 
'Twixt  his  stretched  footing  and  the  scaffoldage. 

27  Shaks.  :  TroiL  and  Cress.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 


The  world's  a  theatre,  the  earth  a  stage 
Which  God  and  Nature  do  with  actors  fill. 

28  Thomas  Heywood  :  Apology  for  Actors. 

Adaptability. 

All  things  are  ready,  if  our  minds  be  so. 

29  Shaks.  :  Henry  V.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

Address. 

And  the  tear  that  is  wiped  with  a  little  address 
May  be  foUow'd  perhaps  by  a  smile. 

30  CowPER  :  The  Rose. 


Adieu. 

Adieu,  adieu  I  my  native  shore 

Fades  o'er  the  waters  blue. 
31  Byron  :  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  i.,  St.  13 


6         DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Adieu,  she  cried,  and  waved  her  lily  hand. 

Gay:  Sweet  William's  Fareioell  to 

32  Black-eyed  Susan. 

Admiration. 

Season  your  admiration  for  a  while. 

33  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

Adoration. 

The  holy  time  is  quiet  as  a  nun 
Breathless  with  adoration. 

34  Wordsworth  :  //  is  a  Beauteous  Evening. 

Adorning. 

Her  modest  looks  the  cottage  might  adorn, 
Sweet  as  the  prinnose  peeps  beneath  the  thorn. 

35  Goldsmith  :  Des.  Village,  Line  232. 

Loveliness 
Needs  not  the  foreign  aid  of  ornament, 
But  is  when  unadorn'd,  adorn'd  the  most. 

36  Thomson:  Seasons,  Autumn,  Line  204. 


Adversity. 

Sweet  are  the  uses  of  adversity, 

Which,  like  the  toad,  ugly  and  venomous, 

AVears  yet  a  precious  jewel  in  his  head; 

And  this  our  life,  exempt  from  public  haunt. 

Finds  tongues  in  trees,  books  in  the  running  brooks, 

Sermons  in  stones,  and  good  in  everything. 

37  Shaks.:  As  You  Like  It,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 


DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.         7 

A  wretched  soul,  bruis'd  with  adversity, 

We  bid  be  quiet,  when  we  hear  it  cry ; 

But  were  we  burthen'd  with  like  weight  of  pain, 

As  much,  or  more,  we  should  ourselves  complain. 

38  Shaks.  :   Com.  of  Errors,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

I  am  not  now  in  fortune's  power : 
He  that  is  down  can  fall  no  lower. 

Butler  :  Hudibras,  Pt.  i.,  Canto  iii., 

39  Line  877. 

For  of  fortunes  sharpe  adversite. 
The  worst  kind  of  infortune  is  this, — 
A  man  that  hath  been  is  prosperite, 
And  it  remember  whan  it  passed  is. 

Chaucer:   Troilus  and  Creseide,  Bk.  iii., 

40  Line  1625. 

Advice. 

Give  every  man  thine  ear,  but  few  thy  voice; 
Take  each   man's  censure,  but  reserve  thy  judg- 
ment. 

41  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

Know  when  to  speak  —  for  many  times  it  brings 
Danger,  to  give  the  best  advice  to  kings. 

42  Herrick  :  Aph.  Caution  in  Council. 

The  worst  men  often  give  the  best  advice. 

43  Bailey  :  Festus,  Sc.  A  Village  Feast. 

*Twas  good  advice,  and  meant,  my  son,  Be  good. 

44  Crabbe  :   The  Learned  Boy. 


8         DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Affectation. 

There  atfectation,  with  a  sickly  mien, 
Shows  in  her  cheek  the  roses  of  eighteen ; 
Practis'd  to  lisp,  and  hang  the  head  aside; 
Faints  into  airs,  and  languishes  with  pride; 
On  the  rich  quilt  sinks  with  becoming  woe, 
Wrapt  in  a  gown,  for  sickness,  and  for  show. 

45  Pope  :  R.  of  the  Lock,  Canto  iv.,  Line  -Ji 

Affection. 

Why,  she  would  hang  on  him, 
As  if  increase  of  appetite  had  grown 
By  what  it  fed  on. 

46  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

Affection  is  a  coal  that  must  be  cool'd, 
Else,  suifer'd,  it  will  set  the  heart  on  fire. 

47  Shaks.:   Fenu.s  rtnr/ .1.,  Line  387. 

Affliction. 

Affliction  is  the  good  man's  shining  scene; 

Prosperity  conceals  his  brightest  ray; 

As  night  to  stars,  woe  lustre  gives  to  man. 

48  Young  :  Night  Thoughts,  Night  ix.,  Line  406. 

Now  let  us  thank  the  Eternal  Power :  convinced 
That  Heaven  but  tries  our  virtue  by  affliction. 

49  John  Brown  :  Barbarossa,  Act  v.,  Sc.  3. 

Affronts. 

Young  men  soon  give  and  soon  forget  affronts; 
Old  age  is  slow  in  both. 

50  Addison:  Cato,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  0. 


DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.         y 

A.ge. 
When  the  age  is  in,  the  wit  is  out. 

51  Shaks.  :  Much  Ado,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  5. 

His  silver  hairs 
Will  purchase  us  a  good  opinion, 
And  buy  men's  voices  to  commend  our  deeds; 
It  shall  be  said,  —  his  judgment  rul'd  our  hands. 

52  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 


Manhood,  when  verging  into  age,  grows  thought- 
ful. 

53     Capel  Lofft's  Aphorisms.  Published  in  1812. 


I  am  declin'd  into  the  vale  of  years. 

54  Shaks.  :  Othello,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  3. 

Age  cannot  wither  her,  nor  custom  stale 

Her  infinite  variety ;  other  women 

Cloy  th'  appetites  they  feed ;  but  she  makes  hungry 

Where  most  she  satisfies. 

55  Shaks.  :  Ant.  and  Cleo.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 


An  old  man,  broken  with  the  storms  of  State, 
Is  come  to  lay  his  weary  bones  among  ye; 
Give  hira  a  little  earth  for  charity  ! 

56  Shaks.  :  Henry  VIII.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  2. 

We  see  time's  furrows  on  another's  brow^  ,  .  . 
How  few  themselves  in  that  just  mirror  see ! 

57  Young  :  Night  Thoughts,  Night  v.,  Line  627. 


10      DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

O,  sir!     I  must  not  tell  my  age. 

They  say  women  and  music  should  never  be  dated. 

58  Goldsmith:  She  Sloops  to  Con.,  Act  iii. 

What  is  the  worst  of  woes  that  wait  on  ai^e? 
What  stamps  the  wrinkle  deeper  on  the  brow? 
To  view  each  loved  one  blotted  from  life's  page, 
And  be  alone  on  earth  as  I  am  now. 

59  Byuon:  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  ii.,  St.  98. 

Old  age  comes  on  apace  to  ravage  all  the  clime. 

60  Beattie  :  The  MinMrel,  Bk.  i.,  St.  25. 

But  an  old  age  serene  and  bright, 
And  lovely  as  a  Lapland  night, 
Shall  lead  thee  to  thy  grave. 

61  Wordsworth  :  To  a  Young  Lady. 

Agony. 

A  solitary  shriek,  the  bubbling  cry 
Of  some  strong  swimmer  in  his  agony. 

62  Byron  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  ii.,  St.  53. 

Agreement. 

Could  we  forbear  dispute  and  practise  love, 

We  should  agree  as  angels  do  above. 

G3  Waller  :  Divine  Love,  Canto  iii. 

Where  order  in  variety  we  see, 

And  where,  though  all  things  differ,  all  agree. 

G4  Pope:    Windsor  Forest,  Line  13. 

Aim. 

Better  have  failed  in  the  high  aim,  as  I, 

Than  vulgarly  in  the  low  aim  succeed. 

65  Robert  Browning:   The  Inn  Album,  \y. 


DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.      11 

Air. 

When  he  speaks, 
The  air,  a  chartered  libertine,  is  still. 

66  Shaks.  :  Henry  V.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Alacrity. 

I  have  a  kind  of  alacrity  in  sinking. 

67  Shaks.  :  Mer.  W.  of  W.,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  5. 

Ale. 

Then  to  the  spicy  nut-brown  ale. 

68  Milton:  L'ylZ/e^rro,  Line  100. 

A  Rechabite  poor  Will  must  live, 
And  drink  of  Adam's  ale. 

69  Prior  :   The  Wandering  Pilgrim. 

Alexandrine. 

A  needless  Alexandrine  ends  the  song. 
That,  like  a  wounded  snake,  drags  its  slow  length 
along. 

70  Pope  :  E.  on  Criticism,  Pt.  ii.,  Line  156. 

Alone. 

Alone,  alone,  —  all,  all  alone ; 
Alone  on  a  wide,  wide  sea. 

71  Coleridge:  The  Ancient  Mariner,  Pt.  iv. 

Amazement. 

But  look!     Amazement  on  thy  mother  sits; 
O  step  between  her  and  her  fighting  soul : 
Conceit  in  weakest  bodies  strongest  works. 

72  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 


1-       DICTIONAKY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Amber. 

Pretty  !  in  amber  to  observe  the  forms 
Of  hairs,  or  straws,  or  dirt,  or  grubs,  or  worms ! 
Tlie  things,  we  know,  are  neitlier  rich  nor  rare, 
But  wonder  how  the  devil  they  got  there. 

73  Pope:  Epis.  to  Arbuthnot,  Line  1Q9. 

Ambition. 

Fling  away  ambition  ; 
By  that  sin  fell  the  angels :  how  can  man  then, 
The  image  of  his  JNlaker,  hope  to  win  by  it? 

74  Shaks.  :  Henry  VII L,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

I  have  no  spur 
To  prick  the  sides  of  my  intent,  but  only 
Vaulting  ambition,  which  o'erleaps  itself, 
And  falls  on  the  other. 

75  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  i.,  Sc.  7. 

Ambition  has  but  one  reward  for  all : 
A  little  power,  a  little  transient  fame, 
A  grave  to  rest  in,  and  a  fading  name. 

76  William  Winter  :  Queen's  Domain. 

To  reign  is  worth  ambition,  though  in  hell : 
Better  to  reign  in  hell,  than  serve  in  heaven. 

77  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  i.,  Line  262. 

Such  joy  ambition  finds. 

78  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iv..  Line  92. 

America. 

America!  half  brother  of  the  world  I 
With  something  good  and  bad  of  every  land ; 
Greater  than  thee  have  lost  their  seat  — 
Greater  scarce  none  can  stand. 

79  Bailey  :  Festus,  Sc.  The  Surface. 


DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.      13 

Anarchy. 

Where  eldest  Night 
And  Chaos,  ancestors  of  Nature,  hold 
Eternal  anarchy  amidst  the  noise 
Of  endless  wars,  and  by  confusion  stand. 

80  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ii..  Line  894 

Ancestry. 

The  sap  which  at  the  root  is  bred 
In  trees,  through  all  the  boughs  is  spread  ; 
But  virtues  which  in  parents  shine 
Make  not  like  progress  through  the  line. 

81  Waller:   7o  Zelinda. 

AVhat  can  ennoble  sots,  or  slaves,  or  cowards? 
Alas !  not  all  the  blood  of  all  the  Howards. 

82  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  iv.,  Line  215. 

Angels. 

Fools  rush  in  where  angels  fear  to  tread. 

83  Pope  :  E.  on  Criticism,  Pt.  iii.,  Line  66. 

The  angels  come  and  go,  the  messengers  of  God. 

84  R.  H.  Stoddard  :  Hymn  to  the  Beautiful. 

The  good  he  scorn'd 
•    Stalk'd  oif  reluctant,  like  an  ill-used  ghost, 
Not  to  return ;  or  if  it  did,  in  visits 
Like  those  of  angels,  short  and  far  between. 

85  Blair  :   The  Grave,  Pt.  ii.,  Line  586. 

Anger. 

Anger 's  my  meat ;  I  sup  upon  myself, 
And  so  shall  starve  with  feeding. 

86  Shaks.  :  Coriolanus,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  2. 

Never  anger  made  good  guard  for  itself. 

87  Shaks.:  Ant.  and  Cleo.,  Act  iv.,    Sc.  1 


14       DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Angling. 

The  pleasant'st  angling  is  to  see  the  fish 
Cut  with  her  golden  oars  the  silver  stream, 
And  greedily  devour  the  treacherous  bait. 

88  SnAKS. :  Much  Ado,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

'T  w^as  merry  when 
You  wager'd  on  your  angling;  when  your  diver 
Did  hang  a  salt-fish  on  his  hook,  which  he 
With  fervency  drew  up. 

89  Shaks.  :  Ant.  and  Cieo.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  5. 

Anticipation. 

Peace,  brother,  be  not  over-exquisite 

To  cast  the  fashion  of  uncertain  evils; 

For,  grant  they  be  so,  while  they  rest  unknown, 

What  need  a  man  forestall  his  (late  of  grief. 

And  run  to  meet  what  he  would  most  avoid? 

90  Milton  :  Comus,  Line  359. 

Antiquity. 

O  good  old  man  !  how  well  in  thee  appears 
The  constant  service  of  the  antique  world. 
When  service  sweat  for  duty,  not  for  meedl 
Thou  art  not  for  the  fashion  of  these  times, 
Where  none  will  sweat,  but  for  promotion. 

91  Shaks.  :  As  You  Like  It,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  3. 

Nor  rough,  nor  barren,  are  the  winding  ways 
Of  hoar  antiquity,  but  strewn  with  flowers. 

Warton  :    Written  on  a  Blank  Leaf  of 

92  DugdaWs  Monasticon. 

Apathy. 

In  lazy  apathy  let  stoics  boast 

Their  virtue  fix'd  ;  't  is  fixed  as  in  a  frost. 

93  Pope  ;  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  i\.,  Line  lOL 


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Apparel. 

Costly  thy  habit  as  thy  purse  can  buy, 

But  not  expressed  in  fancy  ;  rich,  not  gaudy : 

For  the  apparel  oft  proclaims  the  man. 

94  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

Apparitions. 

How  fading  are  the  joys  we  dote  upon  1 
J^ike  apparitions  seen  and  gone. 

95  John  Nokris:   The  Parting. 

Appeal. 

I  have  done  the  state  some  service,  and  they  know  it. 
No  more  of  that ;  I  pray  you  in  your  letters, 
AVhen  you  shall  these  unlucky  deeds  relate, 
Speak  of  me  as  1  am,  nothing  extenuate. 
Nor  set  down  aught  in  malice. 

96  Shaks.  :  Othello,  Act  v.,  Sc.  2. 

Appearances. 

All  that  glisters  is  not  gold, 
Gilded  tombs  do  worms  infold. 

97  Shaks.  ;  M.  of  Venice,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  7. 

Appearances  to  save,  his  only  care; 

So  things  seem  right  no  matter  what  they  are. 

98  Churchill:  Rosciad,  L\i\q  2^^. 

Appetite. 

Now  good  digestion  wait  on  appetite, 
And  health  on  both. 

99  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 

His  thirst   he  slakes  at  some   pure   neighboring 

brook. 
Nor  seeks  for  sauce  where  appetite  stands  cook. 

100  Churchill  :  Gotham,  iii.,  Line  133, 


16       DICTIOXARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIOXS. 

Applause. 

I  would  applaud  thee  to  the  very  echo, 
Tliat  should  applaud  again. 

101  SiiAKS.  :  Macbeth,  Act  v.,  Sc.  3 

Oh  popular  applause !  what  heart  of  man 
Is  proof  against  thy  sweet,  seducing  charms? 

102  CowPER  :   Task,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  481. 

The  applause  of  list'ning  senates  to  command. 

103  Gray:  Elegy,  St.  16. 

April. 

Whanne  that  Aprille  with  his  shoures  sote 
The  droughte  of  March  hath  perced  to  the  rote. 
Chaucer:   Canterbury  Tales,  Prologue, 

104  Line  1. 

April  cold  with  dropping  rain 
Willows  and  lilacs  brings  again, 
The  whistle  of  returning  birds, 
And  trumpet-lowing  of  the  herds. 

105  Emerson:  May-day,  JAne  12i. 

When  aince  Aprile  has  fairly  come, 
An'  birds  may  bigg  in  winter's  lum, 
An'  pleisure's  spreid  for  a'  and  some 

O'  whatna  state, 
Ix)ve,  wi'  her  auld  recruitin'  drum, 

Than  taks  the  gate. 
Robert  Louis  Stevenson:   Underwoods, 

106  Bk.  ii.,  iil 

Argument. 

In  arguing,  too,  the  parson  owned  his  skill. 
For  e'en  though  vanquish'd,  he  could  argue  still. 

107  Goldsmith:  Des.  Village;  Line  2\l 


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Aristocracy. 

'Tis  from  high  life  high  characters  are  drawn ; 
A  saint  iii  crape  is  twice  a  saint  in  lawn. 

108  Pope:  Moral  Essays,  Epis.  i.,  Line  135. 

Art. 

Seraphs  share  with  thee 
Knowledge :  But  art,  O  man,  is  thine  alone  ! 

109  Schiller:  Artists,  St.  2c 

Art  is  the  child  of  Nature ;  yes, 
Her  darling  child,  in  whom  we  trace 
The  features  of  the  mother's  face, 
Her  aspect  and  her  attitude. 

110  Longfellow  i  Ke'ramos. 

Artist. 

In  framing  an  artist,  art  hath  thus  decreed, 
To  make  some  good,  but  others  to  exceed. 

111  Shaks.  :  Pericles,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  3. 

Aspect. 

With  grave 
Aspect  he  rose,  and  in  his  rising  seem'd 
A  pillar  of  state. 

1 12  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  300. 

Aspiration. 

'Tis  he,  T  ken  the  manner  of  his  gait; 
He  rises  on  the  toe ;  that  spirit  of  his 
In  aspiration  lifts  him  from  the  earth. 

113  Shaks.  :  Trail,  and  Cress.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  5. 


18      DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Assurance. 

rU  make  assurance  double  sure, 

And  take  a  bond  ol"  late. 

Ill:  811AKS. :  Macbeth,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

Atheism. 

By  night  an  atheist  half  believes  a  God. 

115  Young  :  Night  Thoughts,  Night  v.,  Line  17G. 

Athens. 

Ancient  of  days  !  august  Athena  1  where, 
Where  are  thy  men  of  might,  thy  grand  in  soul? 
Gone — glinunering  through  the  dream  of  things 

that  were 
Pirst  in  the  race  that  led  to  glory's  goal> 
They  won,  and  pass'd  away. 

116  Byron  :  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  ii.,  St.  2. 

Athens,  the  eye  of  Greece,  mother  of  arts 
And  eloquence. 

117  Milton:  Par.  Regained,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  240. 

Attempt. 

The  attempt  and  not  the  deed 
Confounds  us. 

118  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

Attention. 

The  tongues  of  dying  men 
Enforce  attention  like  deep  harmony. 

119  S11AK8. :  Richard  II.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Audience. 

Still  govern  thou  my  song, 
Urania,  and  fit  audience  find,  though  few. 

120  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  vii.,  Line  30. 


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August. 

Rejoice  !  ye  fields,  rejoice  !  and  wave  with  gold, 
"When  August  round  her  precious  gifts  is  flinging; 
Lo  !  the  crushed  wain  is  slowly  homeward  rolled : 
The  sunburnt  reapers  jocund  lays  are  singing. 

121  RjJSKi^:  The  Months. 

Aurora. 

Aurora  now,  fair  daughter  of  the  dawn, 
Sprinkled  with  rosy  light  the  dewy  lawn. 

122  Pope  :  Iliad,  Bk.  viii.,  Line  1. 

Author. 

Most  authors  steal  their  works,  or  buy ; 
Garth  did  not  write  his  own  Dispensary, 

123  Pope  :  E.  on  Criticism,  Pt.  iii.,  Line  59. 

No  author  ever  spar'd  a  brother. 

124  Gay  :  Fables,  The  Elephant  and  the  Bookseller. 

How  many  great  ones  may  remember'd  be, 
Which  in  their  days  most  famously  did  flourish. 
Of  whom  no  word  we  hear,  nor  sign  now  see, 
But  as  things  wip'd  out  with  a  sponge  do  perish. 

125  Spenser  :  Ruins  of  Time,  St.  52. 

Authority. 

]\Ian,  proud  man, 
Drest  in  a  little  brief  authority. 
Most  ignorant  of  what  he's  most  assur'd, 
His  glassy  essence  —  like  an  angry  ape. 
Plays  such  fantastic  tricks  before  high  heaven 
As  make  the  angels  weep  ! 

126  Shaks.:  M.for  M.,  Act  ii.,  Sc:  2. 


20      DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Autumn. 

Season  of  mists  and  mellow  fruitfulness ! 
Close  bosom  friend  of  the  maturing  sun  ; 
Conspiring  with  him  how  to  load  and  bless 
AVith  fruit  the  vines  that  round  the  thatch-eaves 

run  ; 
To  bend  with  apples  the  moss'd  cottage  trees, 
And  fill  all  fruit  with  ripeness  to  the  core. 

127  Keats:   To  Autumn. 

Divinest  autumn  !  who  may  paint  thee  best, 
Forever  changeful  o'er  the  changeful  globe  ? 
Who  guess  thy  certain  crown,  thy  favorite  crest, 
The  fashion  of  thy  many-colored  robe? 

128  K.  II.  Stoddard:  Autumn. 

Autumn  wins  you  best  by  this  its  mute 
Appeal  to  sympathy  for  its  decay. 

129  Robert  Browning  :  Paracelsus,  Sc.  i. 

The  lands  are  lit 
With  all  the  autumn  blaze  of  Golden  Rod; 
And  everywhere  the  Purple  Asters  nod 
And  bend  and  wave  and  flit. 

130  Helen  Hunt:  Asters  ajid  Golden  Rod. 

I  saw  old  Autumn  in  the  misty  morn 
Stand  shadowless  like  silence,  listening 
To  silence,  for  no  lonely  bird  would  sing 
Into  his  hollow  ear  from  woods  forlorn, 
Nor  lowly  hedge  nor  solitary  thorn. 

131  Hood  :^'lM;umn. 

Avarice. 

The  lust  of  gold  succeeds  the  rags  of  conquest : 
The  lust  of  gold,  unfeeling  and  remorseless  1 
The  last  corruption  of  degenerate  man. 

132  Dr.  J0HN8ON :  Irene,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1 


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I  think  I  must  take  up  with  ava^*^^'^/^,  (__  |_t  B  v\^5^ 
133  Byrox:  Don  Juanj- Csinto^ 


That  disease 
Of  which  all  old  men  sicken,  —  avarice. 
13-1  MiDDLETON  :  Roaring  Girl,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

A"wk-wardnes3. 

Awkward,  embarrassed,  stiff,  without  the  skill 

Of  moving  gracefully,  or  standing  still, 

One  leg,  as  if  suspicious  of  his  brother. 

Desirous  seems  to  run  away  from  t'other. 

135  Churchill  :  Rosciad,  Line  438. 


Balances. 

Jove  lifts  the  golden  balances  that  show 
The  fates  of  mortal  men,  and  things  below. 

136  Pope:  Iliad,  Bk.  xxii.,  Line  271. 

Ball. 

I  saw  her  at  a  county  ball ; 
There  when  the  sound  of  flute  and  fiddle 
Gave  signal  sweet  in  that  old  hall. 
Of  hands  across  and  down  the  middle. 

137  ,  Praed  :  Belle  of  the  Ball-Room,  St.  2. 


Banishment. 

Eating  the  bitter  bread  of  banishment. 

138  Shaks.:  Richard  JL,  Act  iii.,  Sc  1. 


22      DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Banished? 
()  friar,  the  damned  use  that  word  in  hell ; 
Ilowlings  attend  it:  How  hast  thou  the  heart, 
Being  a  divine,  a  ghostly  confessor, 
A  sin-absolver,  and  my  friend  profess'd. 
To  mangle  me  with  that  word  —  banished? 

139  SnAKS. :  Rom.  and  Jul,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  3. 

Banner. 

Hang  out  our  banners  on  the  outward  walls. 

140  SiiAKS.:  Macbeth,  Act  v.,  Sc.  5. 

A  banner  with  the  strange  device. 

1-11  Longfellow:  Excelsior. 

Wave,  Munich  !  all  thy  banners  wave, 
And  charge  with  all  thy  chivalry. 

142  Campbell:  Hohenlinden. 

Bard. 

Be  that  blind  bard  who  on  the  Chian  strand. 
By  those  deep  sounds  possessed  with  inward  light, 
Beheld  the  Iliad  and  the  Odyssey 
Rise  to  the  swelling  of  the  voiceful  sea. 

143  Coleridge:  Fancy  in  Nubihus, 

Bars. 

Stone  walls  do  not  a  prison  make, 

Nor  iron  bars  a  cage. 
114  Lovelace:  To  Altheafrom  Prison,  iv. 

Baseness. 

Since  Cleopatra  died, 
I  have  lived  in  such  dishonor  that  the  gods 
Detest  my  baseness. 
145  SiiAKS. :  Ant.  and  Cleo.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  14. 


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Bashfulness. 

I  pity  bashful  men,  who  feel  the  pain 
Of  fancied  scorn,  and  undeserv'd  disdain, 
And  hear  the  marks  upon  a  blushing  face, 
Of  needless  shame,  and  self-impos'd  disgrace. 

146  CowPER  :   Conversation,  Line  347. 

Battle. 

Then  more  fierce 
The  conflict  grew ;  the  din  of  arms,  the  yell 
Of  savage  rage,  the  shriek  of  agony. 
The  groan  of  death,  commingled  in  one  sound 
Of  undistinguish'd  horrors. 

147  Southey:  Madoc,  Pt.  ii.,  The  Battle. 

For  freedom's  battle,  once  begun, 
Bequeath'd  by  bleeding  sire  to  son, 
Though  baffled  oft,  is  ever  won. 

148  Byrox  :  Giaour,  Line  123. 

When  the  battle  rages  loud  and  long, 
And  the  stormy  winds  do  blow. 

149  Campbell:   Ye  Mariners  of  England. 

Beads. 

The  hooded  clouds,  like  friars, 

Tell  their  beads  in  drops  of  rain. 
15()  Longfellow:  Midnight  Mass. 

Beams. 

And  like  a  lane  of  beams  athwart  the  sea, 

Thro'  all  the  circle  of  the  golden  year. 

151  Tennyson  :   The  Golden  Year. 


24      DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Beard. 

His  beard  was  as  wliite  as  snow, 
All  flaxen  was  his  poll. 

152  SnAKS. :  Hamlet,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  5. 

His  tawny  beard  was  th'  equal  grace 
Both  of  his  wisdom  and  his  face; 
In  cut  and  die  so  like  a  tile, 
A  sudden  view  it  would  beguile; 
The  upper  part  thereof  was  whey; 
The  uether,  orange  mix'd  with  grey. 

Butler:  Hudlbras,  Pt.  i.,  Canto  i., 

153  Line  241. 

Beast. 

A  beast,  that  wants  discourse  of  reason. 

154  SiiAKS. :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

Beauty. 

My  beauty,  though  but  mean, 
Needs  not  the  painted  flourish  of  your  praise; 
Beauty  is  bought  by  judgment  of  the  eye, 
Not  utter'd  by  base  sale  of  chapmen's  tongues. 

155  SiiAKs. :  Love's  L.  Lost,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Beauty  is  but  a  vain  and  doubtful  good; 

A  shining  gloss  that  fadeth  suddenly; 

A  flower  that  dies,  when  first  it  'gins  to  bud ; 

A  brittle  glass  that's  broken  presently; 

A  doubtful  good,  a  gloss,  a  glass,  a  flower, 

Lost,  faded,  broken,  dead  within  an  hour. 

156  Shaks.  :  Pass.  Pilgrim,  St.  11, 

Beauty  stands 
In  the  admiration  only  of  weak  minds 


DICTION AKY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.      Jo 

Led  captive ;  cease  to  admire,  and  all  her  plumes 
Fall  fiat  and  shrink  into  a  trivial  toy, 
At  every  sudden  slighting  quite  abash'd. 

157  Milton  :  Par.  Regained,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  220. 

Old  as  I  am,  for  ladies'  love  unfit, 
The  power  of  beauty  I  remember  yet. 

158  Dryden:  Cyrn.  and  Iph.,  Line  1. 

A  thing  of  beauty  is  a  joy  forever: 
Its  loveliness  increases ;  it  will  never 
Pass  into  nothingness ;  but  still  will  keep 
A  bower  quiet  for  us,  and  a  sleep 
Full    of    sweet    dreams,   and    health,   and    quiet 
breathing. 

159  Keats:  Endijmlon,  Bk.  i.,  Line  1. 

What  is  this  thought  or  thing 

Which  I  call  beauty?  is  it  thought  or  thing? 

Is  it  a  thought  accepted  for  a  thing? 

Or  both?  or  neither  —  a  pretext?  —  a  word? 

Mrs.  Browning:  Drama  of  Ex.  Extrem. 

160  of  Sword-Glare. 

If  eyes  were  made  for  seeing. 

Then  Beauty  is  its  own  excuse  for  being. 

161  Emerson:  The  Rhodora. 

Fair  tresses  man's  imperial  race  insnare. 
And  beauty  draws  us  with  a  single  hair. 

162  Pope  :  R.  of  the  Lock,  Canto  ii.,  Line  27. 

True  beauty  dwells  in  deep  retreats. 

Whose  veil  is  un removed 
Till  heart  with  heart  in  concord  beats, 

And  the  lover  is  beloved. 

Wordsworth:  To .  Let  Other  Bards 

163  of  Angels  Sing, 


26       DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS, 

Bed. 

Ill  bed  we  laugh,  in  bed  we  cry, 
And  l)orn  in  bed,  in  bed  we  die; 
The  near  approacli  a  bed  may  show 
Of  human  bliss  and  human  woe. 

Isaac  de  Bensekade  :  Trans,  by  Dr. 

164  Johnson. 

Bees. 

So  work  the  honey-bees; 
Creatures,  that  by  a  rule  in  nature,  teach 
The  act  of  order  to  a  peopled  kingdom. 

165  Shaks.:  Henry  V.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 


The  moan  of  doves  in  immemorial  elms. 

And  murmuring  of  innumerable  bees. 

166        Tennyson  :  The  Princess,  Pt.  vii.,  Line  203. 


Beggars. 

Beggars,  mounted,  run  their  horse  to  death. 

167  Shaks.  :  3  Heriry  VL,  Act  i.,  Sc.  4. 

When  beggars  die,  there  are  no  comets  seen  ; 
The  heavens  themselves  blaze  forth  the  death  of 
princes. 

168  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

Behavior. 

And  puts  himself  upon  his  good  behavior. 

169  Byron  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  V.,  St.  47. 

Belial. 

When  night 
Darkens  the  streets,  then  wander  forth  the  sons 
Of  Belial,  flown  with  insolence  and  wine. 

170  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  i.,  Line  500. 


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Bells. 

Those  evening  bells  !  those  evening  bells  ! 
How  many  a  tale  their  music  tells 
Of  youth,  and  home,  and  that  sweet  time, 
"When  last  I  heard  their  soothing  chime  ! 

171  Moore:    lliose  Ecening  Bells. 

Ring  out,  wild  bells,  to  the  wild  sky ! 

Ring  out  old  shapes  of  foul  disease, 

Ring  out  the  narrowing  lust  of  gold; 
Ring  out  the  thousand  wars  of  old, 

Ring  in  the  thousand  years  of  peace. 

Ring  in  the  valiant  man  and  free, 

The  larger  heart,  the  kindlier  hand; 
Ring  out  the  darkness  of  the  land, 

Ring  in  the  Christ  that  is  to  be. 

172  Texxysox  :  In  Memoriam,  Pt.  cv. 

Hear  the  mellow  wedding  bells. 
Golden  bells  ! 
What  a  world  of  happiness  their  harmony  foretells ! 

173  Edgar  Allan  Foe  :   The  Bells. 

Benediction. 

The  thought  of  our  past  years  in  me  doth  breed 
Perpetual  benediction. 

Wordsworth:  Intimations  of  Immortality, 

174  St.  9. 

Bible. 

A  glory  gilds  the  sacred  page, 

Majestic  like  the  sun ; 
It  gives  a  light  to  every  age  ; 

It  gives,  but  borrows  none. 

175  CowPER  :  Olney  Hyinns,  No.  30 


28       DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Bigotry. 

Christians  liave  burnt  eacli  other,  quite  persuaded 
That  all  the  Apostles  would  have  done  as  they  did. 
17G  Byron  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  i.,  St.  83. 

Birds. 

You  call  them  thieves  and  pillagers ;  but  know 
They  are  the  winged  wardens  of  your  farms, 
Who  from  the  cornfields  drive  the  insidious  foe, 
And  from  your  harvests  keep  a  hundred  harms. 

177  Longfellow  :  Birds  of  Killingworth,  St.  19. 

Birth. 

Our  birth  is  but  a  sleep  and  a  forgetting: 
The  soul  that  rises  with  us,  our  life's  star, 
Hath  had  elsewhere  its  setting, 
And  Cometh  from  afar. 
"WoRDSWOKTH  :  Intimations  of  Immortality ^ 

178  St.  5. 

While  man  is  growing,  life  is  in  decrease; 
And  cradles  rock  us  nearer  to  the  tomb. 
Our  birth  is  nothing  but  our  death  begun. 

179  Young  :  Night  Thoughts,  Night  v.,  Line  717. 

Birthday. 

A  birthday  :  —  and  now  a  day  that  rose 
With  much  of  hope,  with  meaning  rife  — 
A  thoughtful  day  from  dawn  to  close : 
The  middle  day  of  human  life. 

180  Jean  Ingelow:  A  Birthday  Walk 

Bivouac. 

On  Fame's  eternal  catnping-ground 
Their  silent  tents  are  spread. 


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And  Glory  guards  with  solemn  round 
The  bivouac  of  the  dead. 

181  Theodore  O'Hara:  Bivouac  of  the  Dead, 

Blasphemy. 

Great  men  may  jest  with  saints  ;  'tis  wit  in  them  ; 
But,  in  the  less,  foul  profanation. 

That  in  the  captain 's  but  a  choleric  word, 
Which  in  the  soldier  is  flat  blasphemy. 

182  Shaks.  :  J/,  for  M.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

Bleakness. 

A  naked  house,  a  naked  moor, 
A  shivering  pool  before  the  door, 
A  garden  bare  of  flowers  and  fruit, 
And  poplars  at  the  garden  foot :    ' 
Such  is  the  place  that  I  live  in. 
Bleak  without  and  bare  within. 

Robert  Louis  Stevenson:  The  House 

183  Beautiful 

Blessings. 

How  blessings  brighten  as  they  take  their  flight ! 
181:    Young  :  Night  Thoughts,  Night  ii..  Line  602. 

For  blessings  ever  wait  on  virtuous  deeds, 
And  though  a  late,  a  sure  reward  succeeds. 

185  Congreve  :  Mourning  Bride,  Act  v.,  Sc.  12. 

Blindness. 

O  dark,  dark,  dark,  amid  the  blaze  of  noon ; 
Irrecoverably  dark  !  total  eclipse. 
Without  all  hope  of  day. 

186  Milton:  Samson  A gonisteSylAuQ^O, 


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O,  loss  of  sight,  of  thee  I  most  complain  ! 

Blind  among  enemies,  O  worse  than  chains, 

Dungeons,  or  beggary,  or  decrepit  age  ! 

Light,  the  prime  work  of  (iod,  to  me  's  extinct, 

And  all  her  various  objects  of  deliglit 

Annul'd,  which  might  in  part  my  grief  have  eas'd. 

187  Milton:  Samson  Agonistes,  Line  G7. 

Bliss. 

Condition,  circumstance,  is  not  the  thing; 
Bliss  is  the  same  in  subject  or  in  king. 

188  Pope:  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  iv.,  Line  57. 

Vain,  very  vain,  my  weary  search  to  find 
That  bliss  which  only  centres  in  the  mind. 

189  Goldsmith  :  Traveller,  Line  423. 

Blood. 

When  the  blood  burns,  how  prodigal  the  soul 
Lends  the  tongue  vows. 

190  SiiAKS. :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

A  ruddy  drop  of  manly  blood 

The  surging  sea  outweighs  ; 
The  world  uncertain  comes  and  goes. 

The  lover  rooted  stays. 

191  EiMERSON  :  Epigraph  to  Friendship. 

Blood  is  a  juice  of  very  special  kind. 

Goethe  :  Faust  (Swanwick's  Trans.), 

192  Line  1386. 

Bloom. 

O'er  her  warm  cheek  and  rising  bosom  move 
The  bloom  of  young  Desire  and  purple  light  of 
Love. 

193  Gray  :  Prog,  of  Poesij,  Pt.  1.,  St.  1,  Line  3. 


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Blossoms. 

\yho  in  life's  battle  firm  doth  stand 
Shall  bear  hope's  tender  blossoms 

Into  the  silent  land. 
19i  J.  G.  VON  Salis  :   The  Silent  Land. 

Bluntness. 

1  have  neither  wit,  nor  words,  nor  worth, 
Action,  nor  utterance,  nor  the  power  of  speech, 
To  stir  men's  blood  :  I  only  speak  right  on. 

195  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  iii.,  So.  2. 

Blushing. 

Girls  blush,  sometimes,  because  they  are  alive, 
Half  wishing  they  were  dead  to  save  the  shame. 
The  sudden  blush  devours  them,  neck  and  brow; 
They  have  drawn  too  near  the  fire  of  life,  like 

gnats,  * 

And  flare  up  boldly,  wings  and  all. 
WTiat  then  V 
Who  's  sorry  for  a  gnat  ...  or  girl? 

Mrs.  Browning:  Aurora  Leigh, 

196  Bk.  ii.,  Line  782. 

Boasting.        * 

Here  's  a  large  mouth,  indeed. 
That  spits  forth  death,  and  mountains,  rocks,  and 


Talks  as  familiarly  of  roaring  lions. 

As  maids  of  thirteen  do  of  puppy  dogs. 

197  Shaks.  :  King  John,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

Boat. 

Oh  swiftly  glides  the  bonnie  boat, 
Just  parted  from  the  shore, 


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And  to  the  fisher's  chorus-note 
Soft  moves  the  dipping  oar. 

198  Baillie:  Oh  Swiftly  Glides  the  Bonnie  Boat. 

Boldness. 

In  conversation  boldness  now  bears  sway, 
But  know,  that  nothing  can  so  foolish  be 
As  empty  boldness. 

199  Herbert:  Teinple,  Church  Porch,  St.  31. 

Bond. 

I  '11  have  my  bond ;  I  will  not  hear  thee  speak ; 
I  '11  have  my  bond ;  and  therefore  speak  no  more. 

200  SiiAKS. :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  3. 

Bones. 

Cursed  be  he  that  moves  my  bones. 

201  Shaks.  :  Shakespeare's  Epitaph. 

Rattle  his  bones  over  the  stones ! 

He  's  only  a  pauper,  whom  nobody  owns  ! 

202  Thomas  Noel  :  The  Pauper's  Ride. 

Books. 

A  book  !     O  rare  one  ! 

Be  not,  as  is  our  fangled  world,  a  garment 

Nobler  than  that  it  covers. 

203  Shaks.:  Cymbeline,  Act  v.,  Sc.  4. 

That  place  that  does  contain 
My  books,  the  best  companions,  is  to  me 
A  glorious  court,  where  hourly  I  converse 
With  the  old  sages  and  philosophers ; 


DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.      33 

And  sometimes,  for  variety,  I  confer 

Witii  kings  and  emperors,  and  weigh  their  counsels. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher  :  The  Elder 
204  Brother,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 


Books  cannot  always  please,  however  good ; 

Minds  are  not  ever  craving  for  their  food. 

205  Crabbe  :   The  Borough,  Letter  xxiv. 


Dreams,  books,  are  each  a  world ;  and  books,  we 

know, 
Are  a  substantial  world,  both  pure  and  good ; 
Round   these,  with  tendrils  strong   as  flesh  and 

blood, 
Our  pastime  and  our  happiness  will  grow. 
206  Words\vorth:  Personal  Talk. 


Deep  vers'd  in  books,  and  shallow  in  himself. 

207  Milton  :  Par.  Regained,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  327. 

Some  books  are  lies  frae  end  to  end. 

208  Burns  :  Death  and  Dr.  Hornbook. 

Bores. 

Society  is  now  one  polish'd  horde, 

Formed  of  two  mighty  tribes,  the  Bores  and  Bored. 

209  Byron  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  xiii.,  St.  95. 

Again  I  hear  that  creaking  step  !  — 

He  's  rapping  at  the  door  !  — 
Too  well  I  know  the  boding  sound 

That  ushers  in  a  bore. 

210  J.  G.  Saxe  :  My  Familiar. 


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BorroTving. 

Neither  a  borrower  nor  a  lender  be, 
For  loan  oft  loses  both  itself  and  friend ; 
And  borrowing  dulls  the  edge  of  husbandry. 
This  above  all,  —  to  thine  own  self  be  true  ; 
And  it  must  follow,  as  the  night  the  day, 
Thou  canst  not  then  be  false  to  auy  man. 

211  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

Boston. 

Solid  men  of  Boston,  banish  long  potations ! 
Solid  men  of  Boston,  make  no  long  or^ions ! 

212  Charles  Morris:  American  Song. 

From  Lyra  Urbanica. 

Bough. 

Cut  is  the  branch  that  might    have  grown   full 

straight. 
And  burned  is  Apollo's  laurel  bough. 
That  sometime  grew  within  this  learned  man. 

213  Marlowe  :  Faustus. 

Bounds 

There  's  nothing  situate  under  Heaven's  eye, 
But  hath  his  bound,  in  earth,  in  sea,  in  sky. 

214  Shaks.:  Com.  of  Errors,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Bounty 

For  his  bounty, 
There  was  no  w^inter  in  't;  an  autumn  't  was, 
That  grew  the  more  by  reaping. 

215  Shaks.  :  Ant.  and  Cleo.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  2. 

Large  was  his  bounty,  and  his  soul  sincere, 
lieaven  did  a  recompense  as  largely  send ; 


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He  gave  to  mis'ry  (all  he  had)  a  tear, 

He  gain'd  from  Heav'n  ('twas  all  he  wish'd)  a 
friend. 

216  Gray  :  Elegy,  The  Epitaph. 

Bourn. 

The  undiscover'd  country  from  whose  bourn 
No  traveller  returns. 

217  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

Bower. 

I  'd  be  a  butterfly  born  in  a  bower, 

Where  roses  and  lilies  and  violets  meet. 

218  Thomas  Haynes  Bayly  :  I'd  he  a  Butterfly. 

Bowl. 

There  St.  John  mingles  with  my  friendly  bowl, 
The  feast  of  reason  and  the  flow  of  soul. 

219  Pope  :  Satire  i.,  Line  6. 

Boyhood. 

The  whining  schoolboy,  with  his  satchel, 
And  shining  morning  face,  creeping  like  snail 
Unwillingly  to  school. 


The  smiles,  the  tears, 
Of  boyhood's  years, 
The  words  of  love  then  spoken. 

221  Moore  :  Oft  in  the  Stilly  Night 

Braes. 

We  twa  hae  run  about  the  braes. 
And  pu'd  the  gowans  fine. 

222  Burns:  Auld  Lang  Syne. 


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Braggart. 

I  know  them,  yea, 
And  what  they  weigh,  even  to  the  utmost  scruple  : 
Scrambling,  outfacing,  fashion-monging  boys, 
That  lie,  and  cog,  and  flout,  deprave,  and  slander, 
Go  anticly,  and  show  outward  hideousness, 
And  speak  off  half  a  dozen  dangerous  words. 
How  they  might  hurt  their  enemies  if  they  durst; 
And  this  is  all. 

223  SiiAKS. :  Much  Ado,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Brains. 

The  times  have  been 
That,  when  the  brains  were  out,  the  man  would 

die. 
And  there  an  end  ;  but  now  they  rise  again. 
With  twenty  mortal  murders  on  their  crowns, 
And  push  us  from  our  stools. 

224  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 

Bravery. 

'T  is  more  brave 
To  live,  than  to  die. 

Owen  Meredith  :  Lucile,  Pt.  ii.,  Canto  vi., 

225  St.  11. 

None  but  the  brave  deserves  the  fair. 

226  Dryden:  Alex.  Feast,  St.  1. 

How  sleep  the  brave,  who  sink  to  rest, 
By  all  their  country's  wishes  blest ! 

227  Collins  :  Lines  in  1764. 

Breach. 

Once  more  unto  the  breach,  dear  friends,  once  more, 
Or  close  the  wall  up  with  our  English  dead ! 

228  Shaks.:  Henry  V.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  4. 


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Bread. 

O  God  !  that  bread  should  be  so  dear, 
And  flesh  and  blood  so  cheap ! 

229  Hood  :   The  Sonrj  of  the  Shirt. 

Breast. 

The  yielding  marble  of  her  snowy  breast. 

Waller  :   On  a  Lady  passing  through  a  Crowd 

230  of  People. 

A  word  in  season  spoken 

May  calm  the  troubled  breast. 

231  Charles  Jefferys  :  A  Word  in  Season. 

Breath. 

When  the  good  man  yields  his  breath 
(For  the  good  man  never  dies). 

James  Montgomery  :    The    Wanderer   of 

232  Switzerland,  Pt.  v. 

Breeches. 

But  the  old  three-cornered  hat, 
And  the  breeches,  and  all  that, 
Are  so  queer ! 

233  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  :  The  Last  Leaf. 

Breezes. 

Breezes  of  the  South  ! 
Who  toss  the  golden  and  the  flame-like  flowers. 
And  pass  the  prairie-hawk  that,  poised  on  high. 
Flaps  his  broad  wings,  yet  moves  not  —  ye  have 

played 
Among  the  palms  of  Mexico  and  vines 
Of  Texas,  and  have  crisped  the  limpid  brooks 
That  from  the  fountains  of  Sonora  glide 
Into  the  calm  Pacific  —  have  ye  fanned 
A  nobler  or  a  lovelier  scene  than  this? 

234  William  Cullen  Bryant  :   The  Prairies. 


407445 


38       DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Brevity. 

Since  brevity  is  the  soul  of  wit, 
And   tediousness   the   limbs   and  outward  flour- 
ishes — 
I  will  be  brief. 

235  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

For  brevity  is  very  good, 

When  we  are,  or  are  not,  understood. 

BuTLKR  :  Hudibras,  Pt.  i..  Canto  i., 

236  Line  669. 

Bribes. 

What !  shall  one  of  us, 
That  struck  the  foremost  man  of  all  this  world, 
But  for  supporting  robliers  ;  —  shall  we  now 
Contaminate  our  fingers  witii  base  bribes? 
And  sell  the  mighty  space  of  our  large  honors 
For  so  much  trash  as  may  be  grasped  thus? 
I  'd  rather  be  a  dog,  and  bay  tlie  moon, 
Than  such  a  Roman. 

237  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

Bride. 

You  are  just  a  sweet  bride  in  her  bloom, 
All  sunshine,  and  snowy,  and  pure. 

238  Thomas  B.  Alduich  :  An  Untimely  Thought. 

Bridge. 

By  the  rude  bridge  that  arched  the  flood, 
Their  flag  to  April's  breeze  unfurled. 

Here  once  the  embattl'd  farmers  stood. 
And  fired  the  shot  heard  round  the  world. 

Emerson  :  Hymn  stmc/  at  the  Completion 

239  of  the  Battle  Monument* 


DICTIOXARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTxVTIOXS.      39 

Brooks. 

A  silvery  brook  comes  stealing 

From  the  sliado'.v  of  its  trees, 
Where  slender  herbs  of  the  forest  stoop 

Before  the  entering  breeze. 

William  Cullen  Bryant  : 

240  The  Unknown  Way. 

Brotherhood. 

I  have  shot  mine  arrow  o'er  the  house, 
And  hurt  my  brother. 

241  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  v.,  Sc.  2. 

Affliction's  sons  are  brothers  in  distress ; 

A  brother  to  relieve,  —  how  exquisite  the  bliss ! 

242  Burns:  .4  Winter  Night, 

Bubbles. 

The  earth  hath  bubbles  as  the  water  has, 
And  these  are  of  them. 

243  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

Bucket. 

The  old  oaken  bucket,  the  iron-bound  bucket, 
The  moss-covered  bucket,  which  hung  in  the  well. 

244  WooDWORTH  :  The  Old  Oaken  Bucket. 

Bud. 

The  bud  is  on  the  bough  again. 
The  leaf  is  on  the  tree. 
Charles  Jefferys  :   7'Ae  Meeting  of  Spring 

245  and  Summer, 


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Bugle. 

Blow,  bugle,  blow !  set  the  wild  echoes  flying  ! 
And  answer,  echoes,  answer!  dying,  dying,  dying. 
Tennysox  :   The  Princess,  Pt.  iii., 

246  Line  8'^  >. 

Building. 

The  hand  that  rounded  Peter's  dome, 
And  groined  the  aisles  of  Christian  Rome, 
Wrought  in  a  sad  sincerity; 
Himself  from  God  he  could  not  free; 
He  builded  better  than  he  knew : 
The  conscious  stone  to  beauty  grew. 

247  Emerson  :  The  Problem. 

Burden. 

A  sacred  burden  is  this  life  ye  bear : 
Look  on  it,  lift  it,  bear  it  solemnly. 
Stand  up  and  walk  beneath  it  steadfastly. 

Fkances  Anne  Kemble:  To  the  Young 

248  Gentlemen  leaving  Lenox  Academy,  j]Iiiss. 

Bush. 

For  what  are  they  all  in  their  high  conceit, 
When  man  in  the  bush  with  God  may  meet? 

249  Emerson:  Good-Bye. 

Business. 

Let  thy  mind  still  be  bent,  still  plotting,  where 
And  when,  and  how  thy  business  may  be  done, 
Slackness  breeds  worms ;  but  the  sure  traveller, 
Though  he  alights  sometimes,  still  goeth  on. 

250  Herbert:   Temple,  Church  Porch,  St.  57. 


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Buttercups. 

All  will  be  gay  when  noontide  wakes  anew 
The  buttercups,  the  little  children's  dower. 

Robert  Browning:  Home-Thoughts, 
251  From  Abroad. 


Cadence. 

Wit  will  shine 
Through  the  harsh  cadence  of  a  rugged  line. 

Dryden  :    To  the  Memory  of  Mr.  Oldham, 

252  Line  15. 

Caesar. 

Imperious  Caesar,  dead  and  turn'd  to  clay, 
Might  stop  a  hole  to  keep  the  wind  away. 

253  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

But  yesterday  the  word  of  Caesar  might 

Have  stood  against  the  world ;  now  lies  he  there. 

And  none  so  poor  to  do  him  reverence. 

254  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

Calamity. 

Affliction  is  enamour'd  of  thy  parts, 
And  thou  art  wedded  to  calamity. 

255  Shaks.  :  Rom.  and  Jul.,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  3. 

Calmness. 

And  through  the  heat  of  conflict  keeps  the  law 
In  calmness  made,  and  sees  what  he  foresaw. 

256  Wordsworth:  Character  of  the  Happy 

Warrior. 


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Calumny. 

Calumny  will  sear 
Virtue  itself:  these  shrugs,  these  hums,  and  ha's. 

257  SiiAKS. :    Wint.  Tale,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Camping. 

The  bed  was  made,  the  room  was  fit, 
13y  punctual  eve  the  stars  were  lit ; 
The  air  was  still,  the  water  ran, 
No  need  was  there  for  maid  or  man, 
When  we  put  up,  my  ass  and  I, 
At  God's  green  caravanserai. 

258  RoHERT  Louis  Stevenson  :  A  Camp. 

Candle. 

How  far  that  little  candle  throws  his  beams  I 
So  shines  a  good  deed  in  a  naughty  world. 

259  Shaks.  :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Candor. 

Some  positive,  persisting  fops  we  know. 
Who,  if  once  wrong,  will  needs  be  always  so; 
But  you  with  pleasure  own  your  errors  past, 
And  make  each  day  a  critique  on  the  last. 

260  Pope  :  E.  on  Criticism,  Pt.  iii..  Line  9. 

Cannons. 

The  cannons  have  their  bowels  full  of  wrath  ; 
And  ready  mounted  ai-e  they,  to  spit  forth 
Their  iron  indignation. 

261  Shaks.:  King  John,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Canopy. 

Seas  roll  to  waft  me,  suns  to  light  me  rise  ; 
My  footstool  earth,  my  canopy  the  skies. 

262  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  i.,  Line  139. 


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Capacity. 

That  wondrous  soul  Charoba  once  possest,  — 
Capacious,  then,  as  earth  or  heaven  could  hold, 
Soul  discontented  with  capacity,  — 
Is  gone  (I  fear)  forever. 

263  Walter  Savage  Landor  :  Gehir,  .^k.  ii. 

Captain. 

O  Captain  !  my  Captain !  our  fearful  trip  is  done. 
The  ship  has  weathered  every  rack,  the  prize  we 

sought  is  won. 
The  port  is  near,  the  bells  I  hear,  the  people  all 

exulting, 
"While  follow  eyes  the  steady  keel,  the  vessel  grim 
and  daring. 

But  O  heart !  heart !  heart ! 
O  the  bleeding  drops  of  red, 

Where  on  the  deck  my  Captain  lies, 
Fallen  cold  and  dead. 

Walt  Whitman:  0  Captain!  My  Captain! 

264  (On  Death  of  Lincoln.) 

A  rude  and  boisterous  captain  of  the  sea. 

265  John  Home  :  Douglas,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

Care. 

Care  keeps  his  watch  in  every  old  man's  eye, 
And  where  care  lodges,  sleep  will  never  lie. 

266  Shaks.  :  Rom.  ayid  Jul,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 


Care  that  is  enter'd  once  into  the  breast, 
Will  have  the  whole  possession,  ere  it  rest. 

267  Ben  Jonson  :  Tale  of  a  Tub,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 


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Care,  whom  not  the  gayest  can  outbrave, 
Pursues  its  feeble  victim  to  the  grave. 

Henky  Kirkk  White:  Childhood,  Pt.  ii., 
2G8  Line  17. 

Care  to  our  coffin  adds  a  nail,  no  doubt; 
And  every  grin,  so  merry,  draws  one  out. 

269  Peter  Pindar:  Ex.  Odes,  Ode  15. 

Hang  sorrow !  care  will  kill  a  cat. 
And  therefore  let 's  be  merry. 

270  George  Wither  :  Poem  on  Christmas. 

Carefulness. 

For  my  means,  I  '11  husband  them  so  well, 
They  shall  go  far  with  little. 

271  SuAKS. :  Hamlet,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  5. 

Cat. 

A  harmless  necessary  cat. 

272  Shaks.  :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

Let  Hercules  himself  do  what  he  may. 

The  cat  will  mew  and  dog  will  have  his  day. 

273  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Cataract. 

The  sounding  cataract 
Haunted  me  like  a  passion. 

Wordsworth  :  Lines  composed  a  few  miles 

274  above  Tintern  Abbey. 

Cathedrals. 

The  high  embower'd  roof, 
With  antique  pillars,  massy  proof. 
And  storied  windows,  richly  dight. 
Casting  a  dim  religious  light. 

275  Milton:  II  Penseroso,  Line  157. 


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Cato. 

Like  Cato,  giv^e  his  little  senate  laws, 
And  sit  attentive  to  his  own  applause. 

276  Pope  :  Prologue  to  the  Satires,  Line  207. 

Cattle. 

O  Mary,  go  and  call  the  cattle  home, 

And  call  the  cattle  home, 
And  call  the  cattle  home. 

Across  the  sands  o'  Dee. 

277  Charles  KiNGSLEY  :  The  Sands  of  Dee, 

Cause. 

And  therefore  little  shall  I  grace  my  cause 
In  speaking  for  myself. 

278  Shaks.  :  Othello,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

Caution. 

Let  every  eye  negotiate  for  itself 
And  trust  no  agent. 

279  Shaks.  :  Much  Ado,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Know  when  to  speak ;  for  many  times  it  brings 
Danger,  to  give  the  best  advice  to  kings. 

280  Herrick  :  Aph.  Caution  in  Council. 

Vessels  large  may  venture  more. 

But  little  boats  should  keep  near  shore. 

281  Franklin  :  Poor  Richard, 

Caverns. 

Where  Alph,  the  sacred  river,  ran 
Through  caverns  measureless  to  man 
Down  to  a  sunless  sea. 

282  Coleridge  :  Kuhla  Khan. 


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Celibacy. 

But  earthly  happier  is  the  rose  distill'd, 

Than  that,  which,  withering  on  the  virgin  thorn, 

Grows,  lives  and  dies  in  single  blessedness. 

283  SiiAKS. :  Mid.  N.  Dream,  Act  i.,  So.  1. 


Our  Maker  bids  increase  ;  who  bids  abstain 
But  our  destroyer,  foe  to  God  and  man  ? 

284  iMiLTON  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  748. 

Censure. 

Praise  from  a  friend,  or  censure  from  a  foe, 
Are  lost  on  hearers  that  our  merits  know. 

285  Pope  :  Iliad,  Bk.  x.,  Line  293. 

Ceremony. 

Ceremony  was  but  devised  at  first 
To  set  a  gloss  on  faint  deeds — hollow^  welcomes, 
Recanting  goodness,  sorry  ere  't  is  shown  ; 
But  where   there  is  true  friendship,  there  needs 
none. 

286  Shaks.  :   Timon  of  A.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

Challenge. 

There  I  throw  my  gage. 
To  prove  it  on  thee,  to  the  extremest  point 
Of  mortal  breathing. 

287  Shaks.  :  Richard  II.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  L 

Chance. 

That  power 
Which  erring  men  call  Chance. 

288  Milton  :  Comus,  Line  587. 


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All  nature  is  but  art  unknown  to  thee, 

All  chance,  direction,  which  thou  canst  not  see. 

289  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  i.,  Line  289. 

Change. 

All  but  God  is  changing  day  by  day. 

290  Charles  Kingsley  :  Prometheus. 

When  change  itself  can  give  no  more, 
"  T  is  easy  to  be  true. 

291  Charles  Sedley:  Reasons  for  Constancy. 

Let  the  great  world  spin  forever  down  the  ringing 
grooves  of  change. 

292  Tennyson  :  Locksley  Hall,  Line  182. 

Chaos. 

For  he  being  dead,  with  him  is  beauty  slain, 
And,  beauty  dead,  black  chaos  comes  again. 

293  Shaks.  :  Venus  and  A.,  Line  1019. 

Chaos  of  thought  and  passion,  all  confused; 

Still  by  himself  abused  or  disabused. 

291  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  ii.,  Line  13. 

Character. 

There  is  a  kind  of  character  in  thy  life, 
That  to  the  observer  doth  thy  history 
Fully  unfold. 

295  Shaks.  :  M.  for  M.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Worth,  courage,  honor,  these  indeed 
Your  sustenance  and  birthright  are. 

296  E.  C.  Stedman  :  Beyond  the  Portals,  Pt.  10. 


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Charity. 

Charity  itself  fulfils  the  law, 
And  who  can  sever  love  from  charity? 

297  Shaks.  :  Love's  L.  Lost,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

Alas  for  the  rarity 
Of  Christian  charity 
Under  the  sun  ! 

298  Hood  :  Bridge  of  Sighs. 

Charms. 

Charms  strike  the  sight,  but  merit  wins  the  soul. 

299  Pope  :  R.  of  the  Lock,  Canto  v.,  Line  34. 

Chastity. 

So  dear  to  heav'n  is  saintly  chastity, 
That  when  a  soul  is  found  sincerely  so, 
A  thousand  liveried  angels  lackey  her. 

300  Milton:  0>r«u.<?,  Line  453. 

Chatterton. 

I  thought  of  Chatterton,  the  marvellous  boy, 
The  sleepless  soul  that  perish'd  in  his  pride. 
Of  him  who  walk'd  in  glory  and  in  joy. 
Following  his  plough  along  the  mountain  side. 

301  Wordsworth  :  Res.  and  Indep.,  St.  7. 

Chaucer. 

Dan  Chaucer,  well  of  English  undefyled. 
On  Fame's  eternall  beadroU  worthie  to  be  fyled. 
Spenser  :  Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  iv..  Canto  ii., 

302  St.  32. 

Cheating. 

Doubtless  the  pleasure  is  as  great, 
Of  being  cheated  as  to  cheat. 

303  Butler  :  Hudibras,  Pt.  ii.,  Canto  iii.,  Line  L 


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Cheerfulness. 

It  is  good 
To  lengthen  to  the  last  a  sunny  mood. 

James  Russell  Lowell  :  Leqeyid  of 

304  Brittany,  Pt.'i.,  St.  35. 

Chickens. 

To  swallow  gudgeons  ere  they  're  catch'd, 
And  count  their  chickens  ere  they  're  hatch'd. 

Butler:  Hudihras,  Pt.  ii.,  Canto  ii., 

305  Line  923. 

Chiding. 

Chide  him  for  faults,  and  do  it  reverently, 
When  you  perceive  his  blood  inclined  to  mirth. 

306  Shaks.  :  2  Henry  IV.,  Sc.  4. 

Child  —  Childhood  —  Children. 

Ah !  what  would  the  world  be  to  us 

If  the  children  were  no  more? 
We  should  dread  the  desert  behind  us 

Worse  than  the  dark  before. 

307  Longfellow  :  Children. 

Behold  the  child,  by  nature's  kindly  law. 
Pleased  with  a  rattle,  tickled  with  a  straw. 

308  Pope  :  Essuy  on  Man.  Epis.  ii.,  Line  275. 

The  child  is  father  of  the  man. 

309  Wordsworth  :  My  Heart  Leaps,  Line  7. 

Cliildren  are  the  keys  of  Paradise. 

They  alone  are  good  and  wise, 

Because  their  thoughts,  their  very  lives  are  prayer 

310  R.  H.  Stoddard  :   The  Children's  Prayer. 


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I  have  had  playmates,  I  have  had  companions, 
In  my  days  of  childhood,  in  my  joyful  school-days. 
All,  all  are  gone,  the  old  familiar  faces. 

311  CiiAULES  Lamb  :   Old  Familiar  Faces. 

As  children  gath'ring  pebbles  on  the  shore. 

312  Milton:  Par.  Regained,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  330. 

Backward,  turn  backward,  O  Time,  in  your  flight, 
Make  me  a  child  again,  just  for  to-night. 

Elizabeth  Akers  Allen  :  Rock  Me  to 

313  Sleep. 

Chime. 

Faintly  as  tolls  the  evening  chime, 

Our  voices  keep  tune  and  our  oars  keep  time. 

314  Moore:  .4  Canadian  Boat-Song. 

Chivalry. 

Cervantes  smil'd  Spain's  chivalry  away. 

315  Byrox  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  xiii.,  St.  11. 

Choice. 

There 's  small  choice  in  rotten  apples. 

316  SiiAKS. :   Tani.  of  the  S.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Follow  thou  thy  choi<?fe. 

William  Cullen  Bryant:  Alcagde  of 

317  Molina. 

Choler. 

]\Iust  I  give  way  and  room  to  your  rash  choler? 
Shall  I  be  frighted  when  a  madman  stares? 

318  Shaks.  :  Jid.  Ccesar,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 


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Chord. 

Love  took  up  the  harp  of  Life,  and  smote  on  all 

the  chords  with  might ; 
Smote  the  chord  of  Self,  that,  trembling,  pass'd  in 

music  out  of  sight. 

319  Texnyson:  Locksley  Hall,  Line  33. 

Christ. 

In  the  beauty  of  the  lilies  Christ  was  born  across 

the  sea, 
With  a  glory  in  His  bosom  that  transfigures  you 

and  me : 
As  He  died  to  make  men  holy,  let  us  die  to  make 

men  free. 

Julia  Ward  Howe  :  Battle  Hymn  of  the 

320  Republic. 

Hail  to  the  King  of  Bethlehem, 
Who  weareth'  in  his  diadem 
The  yellow  crocus  for  the  gem 
Of  his  authority. 

Longfellow  :   Christus,  Golden  Legend, 

321  Ft.  iii. 

Christ  —  the  one  great  word 
Well  worth  all  languages  in  earth  or  Heaven. 

322  Bailey  :  Festus,  Sc.  Heaven. 

We  kind   o'   thought  Christ   went  agin  war  an' 
pillage. 

James  Russell  Lowell:  BiyloidPapers, 

323  Xo.  iii. 

Christmas. 

At  Christmas  play,  and  make  good  cheer, 
For  Christmas  comes  but  once  a  year. 

324  TussER  :  500  Pts.  Good  Has.,  Ch.  12c 


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Again  at  Christmas  did  we  weave 

The  holly  round  the  Christmas  hearth ; 
The  silent  snow  possess'd  the  earth. 

325      Tknnyson  :  In  Memoriam,  Pt.  Ixxvii.,  St.  1. 

Bright  be  thy  Christmas  tide  1 

Carol  it  far  and  wide, 

Jesus,  the  King  and  the  Saviour,  is  come ! 

32G     Frances  R.  Havergal  :   Christmas  Mottoes. 

Heap  on  more  wood  I  the  wind  is  chill ; 

But  let  it  whistle  as  it  will, 

We  '11  keep  our  Christmas  merry  still. 

327  Scott  :  Marmion,  Canto  vi.,  Introduction. 

'T  was  the  night  before  Christmas,  when  all  through 

the  house 
Not  a  creature  was  stirring,  —  not  even  a  mouse. 
Clement  C.  Moore:  A  Visit  from  St. 

328  Nicholas. 

Church. 

Who  builds  a  church  to  God,  and  not  to  fame, 
Will  never  mark  the  marble  with  his  name. 

329  Pope  :  Moral  Essaijs,  Epis.  iii..  Line  285. 

"  What  is  a  church?  "  Let  truth  and  reason  speak; 
They  would  reply —  "The  faithful  pure  and  meek, 
From  Christian  folds,  the  one  selected  race. 
Of  all  professions,  and  in  every  place." 

330  Crabbe  :   The  Borough,  Letter  ii. 

Churchyard. 

The  solitary,  silent,  solemn  scpne. 

Where  Caesars,  heroes,  peasants,  hermits  lie, 


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Blended  in  dust  together ;  where  the  slave 
Rests  from  his  labors ;  where  th'  insulting  proud 
Resigns  his  power ;  the  miser  drops  his  hoard ; 
Where  human  lolly  sleeps. 

331  Dyer:  Rums  of  Ro7?i€,  Line  b^O. 

Churlishness. 

My  master  is  of  churlish  disposition, 
And  little  recks  to  find  the  way  to  heaven, 
By  doing  deeds  of  hospitality. 

332  Shaks.  :  As  You  Like  It,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  4. 

Circumstance. 

And  grasps  the  skirts  of  happy  chance, 
And  breasts  the  blows  of  circumstance. 

333  Tennyson  :  In  Memoriam^  Pt.  Ixiii.,  St.  2. 

Citadel. 

A  tower'd  citadel,  a  pendent  rock, 

A  forked  mountain,  or  blue  promontory 

AVith  trees  upon't. 

334  Shaks.:  Ant.  and  Cleo.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  14. 

Citizens. 

Before  man  made  us  citizens,  great  Nature  made 
us  men. 

James  Russell  Lowell:   The  Capture 

335  of  Fugitive  Slaves. 

City. 

As  one  who  long  in  populous  city  pent. 
Where  houses  thick  and  sewers  annoy  the  air. 

336  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ix.,  Line  445. 


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Civilities. 

Love  taught  him  shame ;  and  shame,  with  love  at 

strife, 
Sooii  taught  the  sweet  civilities  of  life. 

337  Dryden  :  Cym.  and  Iph.,  Line  133. 

Clay. 

Tho'  he  trip  and  fall, 
He  shall  not  blind  his  soul  with  clay. 

338  Tennyson  :  The  Princess,  Pt.  vii.,  Line  308. 

Cleanliness. 

E'en  from  the  body's  purity,  the  mind 
Receives  a  secret  sympathetic  aid. 

339  Thomson  :  Seasons,  Summer,  Line  1269. 

Clergyman. 

Near  yonder  copsJ?,  where  once  the  garden  smiPd, 
-     And  still  where  many  a  garden  flow'r  grows  wild, 
There,  where  a  few  torn  shrubs  the  place  disclose. 
The  village  preacher's  modest  mansion  rose. 
A  man  he  was  to  all  the  country  dear. 
And  passing  rich  with  forty  pounds  a  year. 

340  Goldsmith  :  Des.  Village,  Line  137. 

Cliff. 

As  some  tall  cliff  that  lifts  its  awful  form, 
Swells  from   the   vale,   and    midway   leaves    the 

storm,  — 
Though  round  its  breast  the  rolling  clouds  are 

spread. 
Eternal  sunshine  settles  on  its  head. 

341  Goldsmith  :  Des.  Village,  Line  189. 


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Clime. 

Forc'd  from  their  homes,  a  melancholy  train, 
To  traverse  climes  beyond  the  westei-n  main. 

342  Goldsmith:   Traveller,  Lme  4^09. 

Cloak. 

Itt  's  pride  that  putts  the  countrye  doune, 
Then  take  thine  old  cloake  about  thee. 

343  Percy:  Take  Thy  Old  Cloak  About  Thee. 

Clock. 

Till  like  a  clock  worn  out  with  eating  time, 
The  wheels  of  weary  life  at  last  stood  still. 

344  Dryden  :   CEdipus,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

Clothes. 

The  naked  every  day  he  clad 
When  he  put  on  his  clothes. 

345  Goldsmith  :  Elegy  on  the  Death  of  a  Mad  Dog. 

Clouds. 

Circling  the  mountains  the  gray  clouds  go 
Heavy  with  storms  as  a  mother  with  child. 
Seeking  release  from  their  burden  of  snow 
With  calm  slow  motion  they  cross  the  wild  — 
Stately  and  sombre,  they  catch  and  cling 
To  the  barren  crags  of  the  peaks  in  the  west, 
Weary  with  waiting,  and  mad  for  rest. 

346  Hamlin  Garland:   The  Clouds. 


Clouds  on  the  western  side 
Grow  gray  and  grayer,  hiding  the  warm  sun. 
347         Christina  G.  Rossetti  :  Twilight  Calm. 


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Those  clouds  are  angels'  robes.  — That  fiery  west 
Is  paved  with  smiling  faces. 

Chaules  Kingsley:  SainVs  Tragedy^ 
318  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

Coach. 

Go,  call  a  coach,  and  let  a  coach  be  call'd. 

And  let  the  inan  w  lio  calleth  be  the  caller, 

And  in  his  calling  let  him  nothing  call 

But  coach  1  coach  !  coach  !  oh,  for  a  coach,  ye  gods  ! 

349  Cakey:  Chrononhotonthologos,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

Cock-crowing. 

The  early  village  cock 
Hath  twice  done  salutation  to  the  morn. 

350  SiiAKS. :  Richard  HI.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  3. 

Coincidence. 

A  "  strange  coincidence,"  to  use  a  phrase 
By  which  such  things  are  settled  nowadays. 

351  Byrox  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  vi.,  St.  78. 

Cold. 

The  cold  in  clime  are  cold  in  blood. 

Their  love  can  scarce  deserve  the  name. 

352  Byron  :   Giaour,  Line  1099. 

For  this  relief  much  thanks  :  't  is  bitter  cold, 
And  I  am  sick  at  heart. 

353  SiiAKs. :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Coliseum. 

*'  While  stands  the  Coliseum,  Rome  shall  stand ; 
When  falls  the  Coliseum,  Ilonie  shall  fall; 
And  when  Rome  falls  —  the  world." 

354  Byron  :   Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iv.,  St.  145. 


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Colossus. 

Why,  man,  he  doth  bestride  the  narrow  world 

Like  a  Colossus,  and  we  petty  men 

AValk  under  his  huge  legs  and  peep  about 

To  find  ourselves  dishonorable  graves. 

3.55  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

Colors. 

I  took  it  for  a  faery  vision 
Of  some  gay  creatures  of  the  element, 
That  in  the  colors  of  the  rainbow  live, 
And  play  i'  th'  plighted  clouds. 

356  MiLTOx  :  Comus,  Line  298. 

Columbia.    * 

Columbia,  Columbia,  to  glory  arise, 
The  queen  of  the  world  and  child  of  the  skies  ! 
Thy  genius  commands  thee ;  with  rapture  behold, 
While  ages  on  ages  thy  splendors  unfold. 

357  Timothy  Dwight  :   Columbia. 

Column. 

Where  London's  column,  pointing  at  the  skies, 
Like  a  tall  bully,  lifts  the  head  and  lies. 

358  Pope  :  Moral  Essai/s,  Epis.  iii.,  Line  339. 

Combat. 

The  combat  deepens.     On,  ye  brave. 
Who  rush  to  glory  or  the  grave  ! 

359  Campbell:  Hohenlinderu 

Comet. 

Incens'd  with  indignation  Satan  stood 
Unterrify'd,  and  like  a  comet  burn'd 


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That  fires  the  length  of  Ophiucluis  huge 
Tn  th'  Arctic  sky,  and  from  liis  horrid  hair 
Shakes  pestilence  and  war. 

360  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  13k.  ii.,  Line  707. 

Comfort. 

(),  my  good  lord,  that  comfort  comes  too  late; 
'T  is  like  a  pardon  after  execution  ; 
That  gentle  physic,  given  in  time,  had  cur'd  me; 
But  now  I  'm  past  all  comforts  here  but  prayers. 

361  Shaks.  :  Henry  VIIL,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  2. 

Commandments. 

Could  T  come  near  your  beauty  with  my  nails, 
I  'd  set  my  ten  commandments  in  ydiir  face. 

362  Shaks.  :  2  Henry  VI.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

Commentators. 

How  commentators  each  dark  passage  shun, 
And  hold  their  farthing  candle  to  the  sun. 

363  Young  :  Love  of  Fame,  Satire  vii..  Line  97. 

Commerce. 

Whore    wealtli    and   freedom    reign   contentment 

fails, 
And  honor  sinks  where  commerce  long  prevails. 

364  Goldsmith:   Traveller,  JAne  Q1. 

Communion. 

When  one  that  holds  communion  with  the  skies 
Has  fill'd  his  urn  where  these  pure  waters  rise, 
And  once  more  mingles  with  us  meaner  things, 
'T  is  e'en  as  if  an  angel  shook  his  wings. 

365  CowpER  :  Charity,  Line  435. 


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Companions. 

Oh  could  I  fly,  I  'd  fly  with  thee  ! 

We'd  make  with  joyful  wing 
Our  annual  visit  o'er  the  globe, 

Companions  of  the  spring. 

366  John  Logan  :   To  the  Cuckoo. 

Comparisons. 

When  the  moon  shone,  we  did  not  see  the  candle ; 
So  doth  the  greater  glory  dim  the  less. 

367  Shaks.  :  J/,  of  Venice,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

In  virtues  nothing  earthly  could  surpass  her, 
Save  thine  '-incomparable  oil,"  Macassar! 

368  Byron  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  i.,  St.  17. 

Compass. 

Though  pleased  to  see  the  dolphins  play, 
I  mind  my  compass  and  my  way. 

369  Matthew  Green  :  Spleen,  Line  93. 

Compassion. 

O,  heavens  !  can  you  hear  a  good  man  groan, 
And  not  relent,  or  not  compassion  him? 

370  Shaks.  :   Titus  AiuL,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

Compensation. 

Under  the  storm  and  the  cloud  to-day, 

And  to-day  the  hard  peril  and  pain  — 

To-morrow  the  stone  shall  be  rolled  away. 

For  the  sunshine  shall  follow  the  rain. 

Merciful  Father,  I  will  not  complain, 

I  know  that  the  sunshine  shall  follow  the  rain. 

371  Joaquin  Miller  :  For  Princess  Maud 


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Complexion. 

Mislike  me  not  for  my  complexion, 

The  shadoNv'd  livery  of  the  Inirnish'd  sun. 

372  SiiAKS. :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1 

Compulsion. 

Such  sweet  compulsion  doth  in  music  lie. 

373  Milton:  Arcades,  Line  68. 

Concealment. 

She  never  told  her  love, 
But  let  concealment,  like  a  worm  i'  the  bud, 
Feed  on  her  damask  cheek. 

374  Shaks.  :   Tiv.  Night,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  3. 

Conceit. 

Conceit  in  weakest  bodies  strongest  works. 

375  SiiAKs. :  Hamlet,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 

Conclusion. 

But  this  denoted  a  foregone  conclusion. 

376  Shaks.  :  Othello,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  3. 

Concord. 

Pour  the  sweet  milk  of  concord  into  hell, 
Uproar  the  universal  peace,  confound 
All  unity  on  earth. 

377  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

Condemnation. 

To  each  his  suff'rings ;  all  are  men, 

Condenm'd  alike  to  groan, — 
The  tender  for  another's  pain, 

Th'  unfeeling  for  liis  own. 

378  Gray:  On  a  Distant  Prospect  of  Eton  College, 


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Confession. 

Come,  now  again  thy  woes  impart, 
Tell  all  thy  sorrows,  all  thy  sin ; 
We  cannot  heal  the  throbbing  heart, 
Till  we  discern  the  wounds  within. 

379  Crabbe:   Hall  of  Justice, 'Pi.  ii. 

Confidence. 

I  will  believe 
Thou  wilt  not  utter  what  thou  dost  not  know ; 
And  so  far  will  I  trust  thee. 

380  Shaks.  :  1  Henry  IV.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  3. 

Conflict. 

Arms  on  armor  clashing  bray'd 
Horrible  discord,  and  tlie  madding  wheels 
Of  brazen  chariots  i-ag'd ;  dire  was  the  noise 
Of  conflict. 

381  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  vi.,  Line  209. 

Confusion. 

Ruin  seize  thee,  ruthless  king ! 
Confusion  on  thy  banners  wait ! 

382  Gray  :   The  Bard,  Pt.  i.,  St.  1. 

"SVith  ruin  upon  ruin,  rout  on  rout, 
Confusion  worse  confounded. 

383  MiLTOx :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  995. 

Congregation. 

Wherever  God  erects  a  house  of  prayer, 
The  Devil  always  builds  a  chapel  there ; 
And  't  will  be  found,  upon  examination, 
The  latter  has  the  largest  congregation. 

Defoe  :    True-Born  Englishman,  Pt.  i., 

384  Line  L 


62      DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIOXS. 

Conquest. 

Though  fann'd  by  Conquest's  crimson  wing, 
They  mock  the  air  with  idle  state. 

385  Gray  :   The  Bard,  Pt.  i.,  St.  L 

Conscience. 

Thus  conscience  does  make  cowards  of  us  all; 
And  thus  the  native  hue  of  resolution 
Is  sicklied  o'er  with  the  pale  cast  of  thought; 
And  enterprises  of  great  pith  and  moment, 
With  this  regard  their  currents  turn  awry. 
And  lose  the  name  of  action. 

386  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

0  conscience,  into  what  abyss  of  fears 

And  horrors  hast  thou  driven  me ;  out  of  which 

1  find  no  way,  from  deep  to  deeper  plung'd ! 

387  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  x..  Line  842. 

But,  at  sixteen,  the  conscience  rarely  gnaws 
So  much,  as  when  we  call  our  old  debts  in 
At  sixty  years,  aud  draw  the  accounts  of  evil. 
And  find  a  deuced  balance  with  the  devil. 

388  Bykox  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  i.,  St.  167. 

Consideration. 

Consideration  like  an  angel  came, 

And  whipp'd  the  offending  Adam  out  of  him. 

389  SiiAKs. :  Henry  V.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Consistency. 

Gineral  C.  is  a  dreffle  smart  man ; 

lie  's  ben  on  all  sides  thet  give  places  or  pelf; 


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But  consistency  still  wuz  a  part  of  his  plan, — 
He  's  ben  true  to  o«e. party,  an'  thet  is  himself. 

James  Russell  Lowell  :  Biglow  Pajitivs, 
390  No.  ii. 


Consolation. 

This  grief  is  crowned  with  consolation. 

391  Shaks.  :  Ant.  and  Cleo.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

Canst  thou  not  minister  to  a  mind  disease ; 
Pluck  from  the  memory  a  rooted  sorrow ; 
Raze  out  the  written  troubles  of  the  brain  ; 
And,  with  some  sweet  oblivious  antidote, 
Cleanse  the  stuff'd  bosom  of  that  perilous  stuff, 
AVhich  weighs  upon  the  heai-t  ? 

392  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  v.,  Sc.  3. 

Conspiracy. 

Conspiracies  no  sooner  should  be  formed 
Than  executed. 

393  Addison  :  Cato,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

Constancy. 

I  am  constant  as  the  northern  star, 

Of  whose  true-fix'd,  and  resting  quality 

There  is  no  fellow  in  the  firmament. 

394  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 


Alas !  they  had  been  friends  in  youth ; 
But  whispering  tongues  can  poison  truth, 
And  constancy  lives  in  realms  above. 

395  Coleridge  :   ChristaleU  Pt.  ii. 


64       DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Consummation. 

To  die  :  to  sleep  : 
No  more ;  and  by  a  sleep  to  say  we  end 
The  heartache  and  the  thousand  natural  shocks 
That  flesh  is  heir  to,  —  'tis  a  consummation 
Devoutly  to  be  wish'd. 

396  SiiAKS. :  Hamlet,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

Contemplation. 

For  contemplation  he  and  valor  form'd, 
For  softness  she  and  sweet  attractive  grace. 

397  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  297. 

Contempt. 

From  no  one  vice  exempt, 
And  most  contemptible  to  shun  contempt. 

398  Pope  :  Moral  Essays,  Epis.  i.,  Line  194. 

Contention. 

Sons  and  brothers  at  a  strife ! 
What  is  your  quarrel?  how  began  it  first? 
—  No  quarrel,  but  a  slight  contention. 

399  Shaks.  :  3  Henry  VI.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

Contentment. 

He  that  commends  me  to  mine  own  content, 
Commends  me  to  the  thing  I  cannot  get. 

400  Shaks.:   Com.  of  Errors,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

This  is  the  charm,  by  sages  often  told, 
Converting  all  it  touches  into  gold : 
Content  can  soothe,  where'er  by  fortune  placed, 
Can  rear  a  garden  in  the  desert  waste. 

Henry  Kirke  White  :   Clifton  Grove, 

401  Line  139. 


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Contradiction. 

AV Oman's  at  best  a  contradiction  still. 

402  Pope  :  Moral  Essays,  Epis.  ii.,  Line  270. 

Controversy. 

Great  contest  follows,  and  much  learned  dust 
Involves  the  combatants;  each  claiming  truth, 
And  truth  disclaiming  both. 

403  CowPER  :  l^ask,  Bk.  iii.,  Line  16L 

Conversation. 

A  dearth  of  words  a  woman  need  not  fear ; 
But  't  is  a  task  indeed  to  learn' — to  hear: 
In  that  the  skill  of  conversation  lies; 
That  shows  or  makes  you  both  polite  and  wise. 

404  Young  :  Love  of  Fame,  Satire  v.,  Line  57. 

Converts. 

]More  proselytes  and  converts  use  t'  accrue 
To  false  persuasions  than  the  right  and  true  ; 
For  error  and  mistake  are  infinite, 
But  truth  has  but  one  way  to  be  \  th'  right. 

405  Butler  :  Misc.  Thoughts,  Line  113. 

Cooks. 

Heaven  sends  us  good  meat ;  but  the  devil  sends 
cooks. 

406  Garrick:  E pi gr.  on  Goldsmith's  Retal. 

Coquette. 

Or  light  or  dark,  or  short  or  tall, 
She  sets  a  springe  to  snare  them  all ; 
All 's  one  to  her  —  above  her  fan 
She  'd  make  sweet  eyes  at  Caliban. 

407  T.  E.  Aldrich  :  Coquette, 


66       DICTIONARY  OP  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Corruption. 

Corruption  is  a  tree,  whose  branclies  are 
Of  ail  uii measurable  length  :  they  s]>read 
Ev'rywhere;  and  the  dew  that  droi>s  fioni  thence 
Hath  infected  some  chairs  and  stools  of  authority. 
Bp:aumont  and  Fletcher  :   Ho?i.  Mdji's  For., 

408  Act  iii.,  Sc.  3. 

At  length  corruption,  like  a  general  flood, 
(So  long  by  watchful  ministers  withstood,) 
Shall  deluge  all ;  and  avarice  creeping  on, 
Spread  like  a  low-born  mist,  and  blot  the  sun. 

409  Pope  :  Moral  Essays,  Epis.  iii..  Line  135. 

Counsel. 

Bosom  up  my  counsel, 
You  '11  find  it  wholesome. 

410  Shaks.  :  Henry  VII L,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Here  thou,  great  Anna  !   w^hom  three  realms  obey, 
Dost  sometimes  counsel  take  —  and  sometimes  tea. 

411  Pope:  R.  of  the  Lock,  Canto  iii.,  Line  7. 

Country. 

God  made  the  country,  and  man  made  the  town  ; 
What  wonder,  then,  that  health  and  virtue,  gifts, 
That  can  alone  make  sweet  the  bitter  draught 
That  life  holds  out  to  all,  should  most  abound, 
And  least  be  threatened  in  the  fields  and  groves  ? 

412  Cowper  :   Task,  Bk.  i.,  Line  749. 

True  patriots  all ;  for  be  it  understood 
We  left  our  country  for  our  country's  good. 

George  Barrington:   Prologue  written  for 
the  Opening  of  the  Playhouse  at  New  South 

413  Wales,  Jan.  iQ,179G. 


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Courage. 

What  man  dare,  I  dare. 
Approach  thou  like  the  rugged  Russian  bear, 
The  arni'd  Rhinoceros,  or  th'  Hyrcanian  tiger. 
Take  any  shape  but  that,  and  my  firm  nerves 
Shall  never  tremble. 

41-i  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 

I  dare  do  all  that  may  become  a  man  : 

Who  dares  do  more  is  none. 

415  SiiAKS. :  Macbeth,  Act  i.,  Sc.  7. 


No  thought  of  flight, 
Xone  of  retreat,  no  unbecoming  deed 
That  argued  fear ;  each  on  himself  relied, 
As  only  in  his  arm  the  moment  lay 
Of  victory. 

416  MiLTOX,  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  vi.,  Lme  23G. 

Court  —  Courtiers. 

The  caterpillars  of  the  commonwealth, 
Whom  I  have  soon  to  weed  and  pluck  away. 

417  Shaks.  :  Richard  II.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  S. 


Xot  a  courtier, 
Although  they  wear  their  faces  to  the  bent 
Of  the  king's  looks,  hath  a  heart  that  is  not 
Glad  at  the  thing  they  scowl  at. 

418  Shaks.  :   Ci/mbeliue,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

A  mere  court  butterfly. 
That  flutters  in  the  pageant  of  a  monarch. 

419  Bykon  :  Sardanapalus,  Act  v.,  Sc  L 


68       DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Courtesy. 

How  sweet  and  gracious,  even  in  common  speech, 
Is  that  tine  sense  which  men  call  Courtesy ! 
Wholesome  as  air  and  genial  as  the  light, 
Welcome  in  every  clime  as  breath  of  flowers,  — 
It  transmutes  aliens  into  trusting  friends. 
And  gives  its  owner  passport  round  the  globe. 

420  James  T.  Fields  :  Courtesy. 

Courtship. 

Bring,  therefore,  all  the  forces  that  you  may, 
And  lay  incessant  battery  to  her  heart ; 
Plaints,  prayers,  vows,  ruth,  and  sorrow,  and  dis- 
may, — 
These  engines  can  the  proudest  love  convert. 

Spenser:  Amorelti  and  Epithahnnion, 

421  Sonnet  xiv. 

She  is  a  woman,  therefore  may  be  woo'd ; 
She  is  a  woman,  therefore  may  be  won. 

422  Shaks.  :   Titus  And.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 


He  that  would  win  his  dame  must  do 
As  love  does  when  he  draws  his  bow ; 
With  one  hand  thrust  the  lady  from, 
And  with  the  other  pull  her  home. 

Butler  :  Hudibras,  Pt.  ii..  Canto  i., 

423  Line  449. 

Covetousness. 

When  workmen  strive  to  do  better  than  well, 
They  do  confound  their  skill  in  covetousness. 

424  Shaks.  :  King  John,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  2. 


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Co^wardice. 

O,  that  a  mighty  man,  of  such  descent, 
Of  such  possessions,  and  so  high  esteem, 
Should  be  infused  with  so  foul  a  spirit ! 

425  Shaks.  :   Tarn,  of  the  S.,  Introduction,  Sc.  2. 

Cowards  die  many  times  before  their  deaths  ; 
The  valiant  never  taste  of  death  but  once. 

426  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

The  man  that  lays  his  hand  upon  a  woman, 
Save  in  the  way  of  kindness,  is  a  wretch 
Whom  't  were  gToss  flattery  to  name  a  coward. 

427  John  Tobin  :  Honeymoon,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

The  coward  never  on  himself  relies, 
But  to  an  equal  for  assistance  flies. 

428  Crabbe  :  Tale  iii..  Line  84. 

Cowslips. 

"With  cowslips  wan  that  hang  the  pensive  head, 
And  every  flower  that  sad  embroidery  wears. 

429  Milton  :  Lycidas,  Line  139. 

Coxcombs. 

So  by  false  learning  is  good  sense  def ac'd ; 

Some  are  bewilder'd  in  the  maze  of  schools, 

And  some  made  coxcombs,  nature  meant  but  fools. 

430  Pope  :  E.  on  Criticism,  Pt.  i.,  Line  25. 

And  coxcombs  vanquish  Berkeley  by  a  grin. 

431  John  Brown:  An  Essay  on  Satire. 

Cradle. 

Me  let  the  tender  office  long  engage 
To  rock  the  cradle  of  reposing  age. 

432  Pope  :  Prologue  to  the  Satires,  Line  40& 


70      DICTIOXARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Craftiness. 

That  for  ways  that  are  dark 
And  for  tricks  that  are  vain, 
The  heathen  Chinee  is  peculiar. 

Bret  Haute:  Plain  Language  from 

433  Truthful  James. 

Creation. 

Creation  sleeps  !     'T  is  as  the  general  pulse 

Of  life  stood  still,  and  Nature  made  a  pause,  — 

An  awful  pause  !  prophetic  of  her  end. 

434  V  ouxG  :  Night  Thoughts,  Night  i..  Line  23. 

Credit 

Blesc  japer  credit!  last  and  best  supply ! 

Tha^;  iends  corruption  lighter  wdngs  to  fly. 

43o  Pope  :  Moral  Essays,  Epis.  iii.,  Line  39. 

.Shall  I  ask  the  brave  soldier  who  fights  by  my  side 
In  the  cause  of  mankind,  if  our  creeds  agree? 
Shall  I  give  up  the  friend  I  have  valued  and  tried, 
If  he  kneel  not  before  the  same  altar  with  me  ? 

436  ]\IoORE  :   Come,  Send  Round  the  Wine. 

Crime. 

Between  the  acting  of  a  dreadful  thing 
And  the  first  motion,  all  the  interim  is 
Like  a  phantasma,  or  a  hideous  dream. 

437  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

One  murder  made  a  villain. 
Millions  a  hero.     Princes  were  privileged 
To  kill,  and  numbers  sanctified  the  crime. 

438  Beilby  Pokteus  :  Death,  Line  154. 


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Criticism  —  Critics. 

I  am  nothing  if  not  critical. 

439  Shaks.  :  Othello,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Critics  I  saw,  that  other  names  deface, 
And  fix  their  own,  with  labor,  in  their  place. 

440  Pope  :   Temple  of  Fame,  J.ine  37. 

Cromwell. 

Cromwell,  our  chief  of  men,  who  through  a  cloud, 
Xot  of  war  only,  but  detractions  rude. 
Guided  by  faith  and  matchless  fortitude. 
To  peace  and  truth  thy  glorious  way  hast  plough'd. 
Milton  :  Sonnets,  To  the  Lord  General 

441  Cromwell. 

Cross. 

The  moon  of  Mahomet 
Arose,  and  it  shall  set ; 
While,  blazoned  as  on  heaven's  immortal  noon, 
The  cross  leads  generations  on. 

442  Shelley  :  Hellas,  Line  221. 

Crowd. 

Far  from  the  madding  crowd's  ignoble  strife 
Their  sober  wishes  never  learn'd  to  stray. 

443  Gray:  Elegy,  St.  19. 

Crown. 

Upon  my  head  they  placed  a  fruitless  crown, 
And  put  a  barren  sceptre  in  my  gripe. 

444  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

What  seem'd  his  head 
The  likeness  of  a  kingly  crown  had  on. 
Satan  was  now  at  hand. 

445  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  666 


il       DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Cruelty. 

A  stony  adversary,  an  inhuman  wretch, 
Uncapable  of  pity,  void  and  empty 
From  any  dram  of  mercy. 

446  Shaks.  :   M.  of  Venice,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

Cupid. 

Love  looks  not  with  the  eyes,  but  with^the  mind, 
And  therefore  is  wing'd  Cupid  painted  blind. 

447  Shaks.  :  Mid.  N.  Dream,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Cupid  is  a  casuist, 

A  mystic,  and  a  cabalist,  — 

Can  your  lurking  thought  surprise, 

And  interpret  your  device.  .  .  . 

Heralds  high  before  him  run ; 

He  has  ushers  many  a  one ; 

He  spreads  his  welcome  where  he  goes, 

And  touches  all  things  with  his  rose. 

All  things  w^ait  for  and  divine  him, — 

How  shall  I  dare  to  malign  him  ? 

448  Emerson:  Daem.  and  Celes.,  Love,  Pt.  i. 

Cure. 

'T  is  an  ill  cure 
For  life's  worst  ills,  to  have  no  time  to  feel  them. 
Sir  Henry  Taylor:  Phdip  Van  Arfevelde, 

449  Pt.  i..  Act  i.,  Sc.  5. 

Curfew. 

The  curfew  tolls  the  knell  of  parting  day. 
The  lowing  herd  winds  slowly  o'er  the  lea, 

The  ploughman  homeward  plods  his  weary  way, 
And  leaves  the  world  to  darkness  and  to  me. 

450  Gray  :  Elegy,  St.  1. 


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Curiosity. 

I  loathe  that  low  vice,  curiosity. 

451  Byron  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  i.,  St.  23. 

Curls. 

Shakes  his  ambrosial  curls,  and  gives  the  nod, — 
The  stamp  of  fate,  and  sanction  of  the  god. 

452  Pope  :  Iliad,  Bk.  i..  Line  684. 

Current. 

We  must  take  the  current  when  it  serves. 
Or  lose  our  ventures. 

453  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

Curses. 

Let  this  pernicious  hour 
Stand  aye  accursed  in  the  calendar. 

454  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  L 

But  in  their  stead 
Curses,  not  loud  but  deep,  mouth-honor,  breath, 
AVhich  the  poor  heart  would  fain  deny,  and  dare 
not. 

455  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  v.,  Sc.  3. 

It  was  that  fatal  and  perfidious  bark, 

Built  in  th'  eclipse,  and  rigg'd  with  curses  dark. 

456  MiLTOx:  Lycidas,  Line  100. 

Custom. 

How  use  doth  breed  a  habit  in  a  man ! 

457  Shaks.  :   Two  Gent,  of  V.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  4. 

Custom  calls  me  to  't ;  — 
What  custom  wills,  in  all  things  should  we  do  't? 

458  Shaks.:  Coriolanus,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  3. 


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Assume  a  virtue,  if  you  liave  it  not. 

That  monste^,  custom,  who  all  sense  doth  eat, 

Of  habits  devil,  is  angel  yet  in  this. 

459  S11AK8. :  Hamlet,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 

Cypress. 

Dark  tree !  still  sad  when  others'  grief  is  fled, 
The  only  constant  mourner  o'er  the  dead. 

460  Byron  :  Giaour,  Line  28G. 

D. 

Daffadills. 

Fair  daffadills,  we  weep  to  see 

You  haste  away  so  soon  : 
As  j^et  the  early  rising  sun 

Has  not  attained  his  noon. 

461  H  E  R  R  ic  K  :   To  Da  fad  Ills. 

Dagger. 

Is  this  a  dagger  which  I  see  before  me, 
The  handle  toward  my  hand?  .  .  . 
or  art  thou  but 
A  dagger  of  the  mind,  a  false  creation. 
Proceeding  from  the  heat-oppressed  brain  ? 

462  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Daisy. 

The  daisy's  cheek  is  tipp'd  with  a  blush. 
She  is  of  such  low  degree. 

463  KoOD  :  Flowers. 

Damnation. 

And  deal  damnation  round  the  land. 

464  Pope  :  The  Universal  Prayer,  St.  7. 


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Damsel. 

A  damsel  with  a  dulcimer 
In  a  vision  once  I  saw. 

465  Coleridge  :  Kuhla  Khan. 

Dancing. 

Alike  all  ages :  dames  of  ancient  days 
Have  led  their  children  through  the  mirthful  maze : 
And  the  gay  grandsire,  skill'd  in  gestic  lore, 
Has  frisk'd  beneath  the  burden  of  threescore. 

466  Goldsmith  :   Traceller,  Line  251. 

Her  feet  beneath  her  petticoat, 
Like  little  mice,  stole  in  and  out, 

As  if  they  feared  the  light ; 
But,  oh  !  she  dances  such  a  way  ! 
No  sun  upon  an  Easter-day 

Is  half  so  fine  a  sight. 

467  Suckling  :  On  a  Wedding. 

Come  and  trip  it  as  you  go 
On  the  light  fantastic  toe. 

468  Milton:  Z:'.4/%/'o,  Line  33. 

On  with  the  dance  !  let  joy  be  unconfined  ! 

Xo  sleep  till  morn,  when  youth  and  pleasure  meet, 

To  chase  the  glowing  hours  with  flying  feet. 

469  Byron  :  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iii.,  St.  22* 

You  have  the  Pyrrhic  dance  as  yet, 
Where  is  the  Pvrrhic  phalanx  gone? 

470  Byron  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  iii.,  St.  86.  10. 

Danger. 

He  that  stands  upon  a  slippery  place, 
Makes  nice  of  no  vile  hold  to  stay  him  up. 

471  Shaks.  :  King  John,  Act  iii.,  So.  4. 


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Out  of  this  nettle,  danger,  we  pluck  this  flower, 
safety. 

472  SiiAKS. :  1  Henry  IV.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  3. 

Whom  neither  shape  of  danger  can  dismay, 
Nor  thought  of  tender  happiness  betray. 

WouDSWORTH  :  Character  of  the  Happy 

473  Warrior. 

Dante. 

Oh  their  Dante  of  the  dread  Inferno, 
Wrote  one  song  —  and  in  my  brain  I  sing  it. 

474  Robert  Browning  :  One  Word  More,  xvii. 

Daring. 

I  dare  do  all  that  may  become  a  man ; 
Who  dares  do  more  is  none. 

475  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  i.,  Sc.  7 


The  bravest  are  the  tenderest,  — 
The  loving  are  the  daring. 

476  Bayard  Taylor:  The  Song  of  the  Camp. 

Darkness. 

Lo !  darkness  bends  down  like  a  mother  of  grief 
On  the  limitless  plain,  and  the  fall  of  her  hair 
It  has  mantled  a  world. 

477  Joaquin  Miller  :  From  Sea  to  Sea,  St.  4. 


Thy  hand,  great  Anarch,  lets  the  curtain  fall, 
And  universal  darkness  buries  all. 

478  Pope  :  Dunciad,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  049. 


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Dart. 

Th'  adorning  thee  with  so  much  art 

Is  but  a  barb'ious  skill ; 
'T  is  like  the  pois'ning  of  a  dart, 

Too  apt  before  to  kill. 

479  Abraham  Cowley:  The  Waiting  Maid. 

Daughter. 

Still  harping  on  my  daughter. 

480  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

Farewell,  farewell  to  thee,  Araby's  daughter ! 
Thus  warbled  a  Peri  beneath  the  dark  sea. 

481  Moore:  Lalla  Rookh,  The  Fire-Worshippers. 

Dawn. 

The  morning  steals  upon  the  night, 
Melting  the  darkness. 

482  Shaks.  :  Tempest,  Act  y.,  Sc.  1. 

The  day  begins  to  break,  and  night  is  fled, 
Whose  pitchy  mantle  over-veil'd  the  earth. 

483  Shaks.  :  1  Henry  VI.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

Clothing  the  palpable  and  familiar 
With  golden  exhalations  of  the  dawn. 

Coleridge  :  Death  of  Wallenstein,  Act  i., 

484  Sc.  1. 

Day.  Days. 

At  the  close  of  the  day  when  the  hamlet  is  still. 
And  mortals  the  sweets  of  forgetfulness  prove, 
When  naught  but  the  torrent  is  heard  on  the  hill, 
And  naught  but  the  nightingale's  song   in   the 
grove. 

485  Beattie  :  The  Hermit 


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My  days  are  in  the  yellow  leaf; 

Tlie  Howers  and  fruits  of  love  are  gone ; 
The  worm,  the  canker,  and  the  grief 

Are  mine  alone ! 

486  Byron  :  On  my  Thirty-sixth  Year. 

One  of  those  heavenly  days  that  cannot  die. 

487  Wordsworth  :  Nutting. 

Death. 

Of  all  the  wonders  that  I  yet  have  heard, 

It  seems  to  me  most  strange  that  men  should  fear; 

Seeing  that  death,  a  necessary  end, 

Will  come,  when  it  will  come. 

488  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

Kings  and  mightiest  potentates  must  die, 
For  that 's  the  end  of  human  misery. 

489  Shaks.  :  1  Hejiry  VI.,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

Death  lies  on  her,  like  an  untimely  frost 
Upon  the  sweetest  flower  of  all  the  fleld. 

490  Shaks.  :  Rom.  and  Jul.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  5. 

Though  death  be  poor,  it  ends  a  mortal  woe. 

491  Shaks.  :  Richard  II.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Behind  her  death, 
Close  following  pace  for  pace,  not  mounted  yet 
On  his  pale  horse. 

492  Milton:  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  x.,  Line  588. 

Come  to  the  bridal  chamber,  Death  ! 
Come  to  the  mother's,  when  she  feels, 
For  the  first  time,  her  first-born's  breath ; 
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That  close  the  pestilence  are  broke, 
And  crowded  cities  wail  its  stroke; 
Come  in  consumption's  ghastly  form, 
The  earthquake  shock,  ttie  ocean  storm ; 
Come  when  the  heart  beats  high  and  warm, 
"With  banquet  song,  and  dance,  and  wine; 
And  thou  art  terrible,  —  the  tear, 
The  groan,  the  knell,  the  pall,  the  bier, 
And  all  we  know,  or  dream,  or  fear 
Of  agony  are  thine. 

493  Fitz-Greexe  Halleck  :  Marco  Bozzaiis. 

Death  loves  a  shining  mark,  a  signal  blow. 

494  Young  :  Night  Thoughts,  Night  v..  Line  1011. 

To  every  man  upon  this  earth 
Death  conieth  soon  or  late. 

495  Macaulay  :  Lays  A  nc.  Rome,  Horatius,  xxvii. 

Leaves  have  their  times  to  fall, 

And  flowers  to  wither  at  the  north  wind's  breath, 

And  stars  to  set  —  but  all. 

Thou  hast  all  seasons  for  thine  own,  O  death. 

496  Mrs.  Hemaxs  :  Hour  of  Death. 

•Death  is  only  kind  to  mortals. 

497  Schiller  :  Complaint  of  Ceres,  St.  4. 

What  a  strange,  delicious  amazement  is  Death, 
To  be  without  body  and  breathe  without  breath. 

498  Edwin  Arnold  :  She  and  He. 

There  is  no  Death  !     What  seems  so  is  transition; 

This  life  of  mortal  breath 
Is  but  a  suburb  of  the  life  elysian, 

Whose  portal  we  call  death. 

499  Longfellow  :  Resignation,  St.  5. 


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Our  days  begin  with  trouble  here, 

Our  life  is  but  a  span, 
And  cruel  death  is  always  near, 

So  frail  a  thing  is  nian. 

500  From  the  New  England  Primer. 

Death  rides  on  every  passing  breeze, 
He  lurks  in  every  flower. 

501  Heber  :  At  a  Funeral,  No.  i. 

How  wonderful  is  Death  ! 
Death  and  his  brother  Sleep. 

502  Shelley  :  Queen  Mab,  St.  i. 

And  Death  is  beautiful  as  feet  of  friend 
Coming  with  welcome  at  our  journey's  end. 

James  Russell  Lowell  :  7  o  George 

503  William  Curtis. 

Death  in  itself  is  nothing ;  but  we  fear 

To  be  we  know  not  what,  we  know  not  where. 

504  Dryden  :  Aurengzebe,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

Debt. 

You  say,  you  nothing  owe;  and  so  I  say : 
He  only  owes,  who  something  hath  to  pay. 

505  Martial  :  (Hay),  ii.,  3. 

Decay. 

Before  decay's  effacing  fingers 

Have  swept  the  lines  where  beauty  lingers. 

506  Byron  :  Giaour,  Line  68. 

The  ruins  of  himself !  now  worn  away 
With  age,  yet  still  majestic  in  decay. 

507  Pope:  Odyssey,  Bk.  xxiv..  Line  271. 


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Deceit. 

Ah,  that  deceit  should  steal  such  gentle  shapes, 
And  with  a  virtuous  visor  hide  deep  vice. 

508  Shaks.  :  Richard  III.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

O,  what  a  tangled  web  we  weave, 
When  first  we  practise  to  deceive. 

509  Scott  :  Marmion,  Canto  vi.,  St.  17. 

December. 

And  after  him  came  next  the  chill  December : 
Yet  he,  through  merry  feasting  which  lie  made 
And  great  bonfires,  did  not  the  cold  remember; 
His  Saviour's  birth  his  mind  so  much  did  glad. 
Spenser  :  Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  vii.,  Canto  vii., 

510  St.  41. 

As  soon 
Seek  roses  in  December,  ice  in  June. 

Byron  :  English  Bards  and  Scotch  Reviewers, 

511  Line  75. 

Decency. 

hnmodest  words  admit  of  no  defence, 
For  want  of  decency  is  want  of  sense. 

Earl  of  Roscommon  :  Essay  on  Translated 

512  Verse,  Line  113. 

Decision. 

If  it  were  done,  when  't  is  done,  then  't  were  well 
It  were  done  quickly. 

513  Shaks.:  Macbeth,  Act  i.,  Sc.  7. 

Once  to  every  man  and  nation  comes  the  moment 

to  decide, 
In  the  strife  of  Truth  with   Falsehood,  for  the 

good  or  evil  side ; 


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Some   great   cause,  God's  new  Messiah   offering 

each  the  bloom  or  blight, 
Parts  the  goats  upon  the  left  hand,  and  the  sheep 

upon  the  right; 
And  the  choice  goes  by  forever  'twixt  that  dark- 
ness and  that  light. 

514  James  Russell  Lowell  :  Present  Crisis. 

Deeds. 

And  with  necessity, 
The  tyrant's  plea,  excus'd  his  devilish  deeds. 

515  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  393. 

Oh  !  't  is  easy 
To  beget  great  deeds ;  but  in  the  rearing  of  them  — 
The  tlireading  in  cold  blood  each  mean  detail, 
And  furze  brake  of  half-pertinent  circumstance  — 
There  lies  the  self-denial. 

Charles  Kingsley  :  Saint's  Trar/edij, 

516  Act  iv!,  Sc.  3. 

Deep. 

Embosom'd  in  the  deep  where  Holland  lies, 
INIethinks  her  patient  sons  before  me  stand. 
Where  the  broad  ocean  leans  against  the  land. 

517  Goldsmith  :  Traveller,  Line  282. 

Defeat. 

Such  a  numerous  host 
Fled  not  in  silence  through  the  frighted  deep, 
With  ruin  upon  ruin,  rout  on  rout. 
Confusion  worse  confounded. 

518  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ii..  Line  993. 

Defect. 

So  may  a  glory  from  defect  arise. 

519  Robert  Browning:  Deaf  and  Dumb, 


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Defence. 

What  boots  it  at  one  gate  to  make  defence, 
And  at  another  to  let  in  the  ioe  ? 

520  Milton  :   Samson  Agonistes,  Line  560. 

Defiance. 

I  do  defy  him,  and  I  spit  at  him ; 
Call  him  a  slanderous  coward,  and  a  villain  : 
Which  to  maintain,  I  \Yould  allow  him  odds; 
And  meet  him,  were  I  tied  to  run  a-foot, 
Even  to  the  frozen  ridges  of  the  Alps. 

521  Shaks.  :  Richard  II.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Deity. 

Hail,  source  of  being!  universal  soul 
Of  heaven  and  earth!  essential  presence,  hail! 
To  Thee  I  bend  the  knee;  to  Thee  my  tlioughts 
Continual,  climb;  who,  with  a  master  hand. 
Hast  the  great  whole  into  perfection  touch'd. 

522  Thomson  :   Seasons,  Spring,  Line  556. 

Dejection. 

As  high  as  we  have  mounted  in  delight, 
In  our  dejection  do  we  sink  as  low\ 

Wordsworth  :  Resolution  and  Independence, 

523  St.  4. 

Delay. 

Delay  leads  impotent  and  snail-paced  beggary. 

524  Shaks.  :  Richard  III.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

Be  wise  to-day:  't  is  madness  to  defer  ; 
Xext  day  the  fatal  precedent  will  plead  ; 
Thus  on,  till  wisdom  is  push'd  out  of  life. 

525  Young  :  Night  Thoughts,  Night  i..  Line  390. 


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Deliberation. 

Deep  on  his  front  engraven, 
Deliberation  sat,  and  public  care. 

526  Milton:   Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  300. 

Delight. 

She  was  a  phantom  of  delight 
"When  first  she  gleamed  upon  my  sight, 
A  lovely  apparition,  sent 
To  be  a  moment's  ornament. 

WoRDSWOUTii  :   She  was  a  Phantom  of 

527  Delight. 

Delusion. 

For  love  of  grace, 
Lay  not  that  flattering  unction  to  your  soul 
That  not  your  trespass  but  my  madness  speaks : 
It  will  but  skin  and  film  the  ulcerous  place : 
Whiles  rank  corruption,  mining  all  within, 
Infects  unseen. 

528  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 

Denmark. 

Something  is  rotten  in  the  State  of  Denmark. 

529  SuAKS. :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  4. 

Deportment. 

What 's  a  fine  person,  or  a  beauteous  face, 
Unless  deportment  gives  them  decent  grace  ? 
Blest  with  all  other  requisites  to  please, 
Some  want  the  striking  elegance  of  ease; 
The  curious  eye  their  awkward  movement  tires  ; 
They  seem  like  puppets  led  about  by  wires. 

530  Churchill:  RoscUifl,  L\ne  7 il. 


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Depravity. 

God's  love  seemed  lost  upon  him. 

531  Bailey  :  Feslus^  Sc.  Heaven. 

Depression. 

All  day  the  darkness  and  the  cold 

Upon  my  heart  have  lain, 
Like  shadows  on  the  winter  sky, 

Like  frost  upon  the  pane. 

532  Whittier  :  On  Receiviny  an  Eagle's  Quill. 

Desert. 

In  the  cold  grave,  under  the  deep,  deep  sea, 
Or  in  the  wide  desert  where  no  life  is  found. 

533  Hood  -.  Sonnet,  Silence. 

The  keenest  pangs  the  wretched  find 

Are  rapture  to  the  dreary  void, 
The  leafless  desert  of  the  mind. 

The  waste  of  feelings  unemployed. 
53-i  Byron  :  Giaour,  Line  957. 

Desire  (Love). 

It  liveth  not  in  fierce  desire, 

With  dead  desire  it  doth  not  die. 

Scott:  Larj  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  Canto  v., 

535  St.  13. 

Desolation. 

Desolate  !     Life  is  so  dreary  and  desolate. 
Women  and  men  in  the  crowd  meet  and  mingle, 
Yet  with  Itself  every  soul  standeth  single. 
Deep  out  of  sympathy  moaning  its  moan  ; 
Holding  and  having  its  brief  exultation  ; 
Making  its  lonesome  and  low  lamentation; 
Fighting  its  terrible  conflicts  alone. 

536  Alice  Gary:  Life. 


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Despair. 

Despair  defies  even  despotism;  there  is 

That  ill  iny  heart  would  make  its  way  thro'  hosts 

With  levell'd  spears. 

537  Byron:    Two  Foscari,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Then  black  despair, 
The  shadow  of  a  starless  night,  was  thrown 
Over  the  world  in  which  I  moved  alone. 

538  Shelley:  Revolt  of  Islam,  Dedication,  St.  6. 

The  strongest  and  the  fiercest  spirit 
That  fought  in  heaven,  now  fiercer  by  despair. 

539  Milton:  Pur.  Lost,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  44. 

Destiny. 

That  old  miracle —  Love-at-first-sight  — 
Needs  no  explanations.     The  heart  reads  aright 
Its  destiny  sometimes. 

Owen  Meredith:  Lucile,  Pt.  ii.,  Canto  vi., 

540  St.  16. 

Where'er  she  lie, 

Locked  up  from  mortal  eye, 

In  shady  leaves  of  destiny. 

Richard  Crashaw:    Wishes  to  his  Supposed 

541  Mistress. 

Determination. 

I  '11  speak  to  it,  though  hell  itself  should  gape, 
And  bid  me  hold  my  peace. 

542  SiiAKS. :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

Detraction. 

Happy  are  they  that  hear  their  detractions. 
And  can  put  tiiem  to  mending. 

543  Shaks.:   Much  Ado,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  3. 


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A  third  interprets  motions,  looks,  and  eyes ; 
At  every  word  a  reputation  dies. 

544  Pope  :  R.  of  the  Lock,  Canto  iii.,  Line  15. 

Devil. 

'T  is  tiie  eye  of  childhood 
That  fears  a  painted  devil. 

545  Shaks.  :  Macbelk,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

The  devil  was  sick,  the  devil  a  saint  would  be ; 

The  devil  was  well,  the  devil  a  saint  was  he. 

510  Rabelais:    IVot-ks,  Bk.  iv.,  Ch.  xxiv. 

Devotion. 

As  down  in  the  sunless  retreats  of  the  ocean 
Sweet  flowers  are  springing  no  mortal  can  see, 
So  deep  in  my  soul  the  still  prayer  of  devotion 
Unheard  V)y  the  world,  rises  silent  to  Tliee. 

547  ]\1oore:  .4s  Doisn  in  the  Sunless  Retreats. 

Dew. 

What  gentle  ghost,  besprent  with  April  dew, 
Hails  me  so  solemnly  to  yonder  yew? 

548  Ben  Jonson:   Elegy  on  the  Lady  Jane  Paiclet. 

Dial. 

True  as  the  dial  to  the  sun. 
Although  it  be  not  shin'd  upon. 

Butler:  Hudibras,  Pt.  iii.,  Canto  ii.. 

549  Line  175. 

Difficulty. 

It  is  as  hard  to  come,  as  for  a  camel 
To  thread  the  postern  of  a  needle's  eye. 

550  Shaks  :  Richard  11.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  5 


88       DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Dignity. 

Grace  was  in  all  her  steps,  heaven  in  her  eye, 
In  every  gesture  dignity  and  love. 

551  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  viii.,  Line  488. 

Digression. 

And  there  began  a  lang  digression 
About  the  lords  o'  the  creation. 

552  BuKNs:  The  Twa  Dogs. 

Dinner. 

Since  Eve  ate  apples,  much  depends  on  dinner. 

553  Bykon  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  xiii.,  St.  99. 

Disappointment. 

Oh  !  that  a  dream  so  sweet,  so  long  enjoy'd, 
Should  be  so  sadly,  cruelly  destroy'd ! 

JNlooRE  :  Lalla  Rookh,  Veiled  Prophet  of 

554  Khorassan. 

Discord. 

Discord  oft  in  music  makes  the  sweeter  lay. 

Spenser  :  Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  iii..  Canto  ii., 

555  St.  15. 

From  hence,  let  fierce  contending  nations  know 
What  dire  effects  from  civil  discord  flow. 

556  Addison  :  Cato,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  4. 

Discourse. 

Sure,  he  that  made  us  with  such  large  discourse, 
Looking  before  and  after,  gave  us  not 
That  capability  and  godlike  reason 
To  fust  in  us  unused. 

557  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  4. 


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Discretion. 

Let 's  teach  ourselves  that  honorable  stop, 
Not  to  outsport  discretion. 

558  Shaks.  :  Othello,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  3. 

It  shewed  discretion,  the  best  part  of  valor. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher:  King  and  No 

559  King,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

Diseases. 

Diseases,  desperate  grown, 
By  desperate  appliance  are  reliev'd. 
Or  not  at  all. 

560  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

Disguise. 

'T  is  great,  't  is  manly,  to  disdain  disguise ; 
It  shows  our  spirit,  or  it  proves  our  strength. 

Young  :  Night  Thoughts,  Night  viii., 

561  Line  372. 

Dislike. 

1  do  not  love  thee.  Doctor  Fell, 
The  reason  why  I  cannot  tell ; 
But  this  alone  I  know  full  well, 
I  do  not  love  thee,  Doctor  Fell. 

562  Tom  Brown  :   Trans,  of  Martial's  Ep.  L,  33. 

Disobedience. 

Of  man's  first  disobedience,  and  the  fruit 
Of  that  forbidden  tree,  whose  mortal  taste 
Brought  death  into  the  world,  and  all  our  woe. 

563  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  i.,  Line  1. 


90      DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATION'S. 

Disorder. 

You    have    displac'd   the    mirth,  broke   the   good 

meeting, 
With  most  admir'd  disorder. 
5G4  SiiAKS. :  Macbeth,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 

Disposition. 

lie  is  of  a  very  melancholy  disposition. 

565  SiiAKS. :  Much  Ado,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Dispute. 

'T  is  strange  how  some  men's  tempers  suit, 

Like  bawd  and  brandy,  with  dispute. 

That  for  their  own  opinions  stand  fast, 

Only  to  have  them  claw'd  and  canvass'd. 

56G     Butler:  Hudibras,  Pt.  ii.,  Canto  ii.,  Line  1. 

Dissension. 

Now  join  your  hands,  and  with  your  hands  your 

hearts. 
That  no  dissension  hinder  government. 
5G7  Shaks.  :  3  Henry  VI.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  6. 

Dissimulation. 

Away  and  mock  the  time  with  fairest  show  ; 
False  face  must  hide  what  the  false  heart  doth 
know. 

568  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  i.,  Sc.  7. 

Dissolution. 

Like  the  baseless  fabric  of  this  vision, 
The  cloud-capp'd  towers,  the  gorgeous  palaces. 
The  solemn  temples,  the  great  globe  itself, 
Yea,  all  which  it  inherit,  shall  dissolve; 
And,  like  this  insubstantial  pageant  faded. 
Leave  not  a  rack  behind. 

569  SiiAKS. :   Temper,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  L 


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Distance. 

'T  is  distance  lends  enchantment  to  the  view, 
And  robes  the  mountain  in  its  azure  hue. 

570  Campbell:  PL  of  Hope,  Pt.  i.,  Line  7. 


Sweetest  melodies 
Are  those  that  are  by  distance  made  more  sweet. 

571  Wordsworth  :  Personal  Talk,  St.  2. 

Distrust. 

The  saddest  thing  that  can  befall  a  soul 
Is  when  it  loses  faith  in  God  and  woman. 

572  Alexander   Smith  :  A  Life  Drama,  Sc.  12. 

Divinity. 

There's  a  divinity  that  shapes  our  ends, 
Rough-hew  them  how  we  will. 

573  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  v.,  Sc.  2. 

Doctrine. 

And  prove  their  doctrine  orthodox, 
By  apostolic  blows  and  knocks. 

Butler  :  Hudibras,  Pt.  i..  Canto  i., 

574  Line  205. 

Dogs. 

Ay,  in  the  catalogue  ye  go  for  men ; 

As  hound.s,  and  greyhounds,   mongrels,  spaniels, 

curs, 
Shoughs,  water-rugs,  and  demi-wolves,  are  'clept 
All  by  the  name  of  dogs. 

575  Shaks.  :   Macbeth,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 


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Dominion. 

Here  we  may  reign  secure,  and  in  my  choice 
To  reign  is  worth  ambition,  thougli  in  Hell : 
Better  to  reign  in  Hell,  than  serve  in  Heaven. 

576  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  i.,  Line  261. 

Doom. 

What,  will  the  line  stretch  out  to  the  crack  of 
doom  ? 

577  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

Doubt. 

Modest  doubt  is  calPd 
The  beacon  of  the  wise,  the  tent  that  searches 
To  the  bottom  of  the  worst. 

578  Shaks.  :   Troil.  and  Cress.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

Our  doubts  are  traitors, 
And  make  us  lose  the  good  we  oft  might  win, 
By  fearing  to  attempt. 

579  Shaks.  :  M.  for  M.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  5. 

Drama. 

The  drama's  laws  the  drama's  patrons  give, 
For  we  that  live  to  please,  must  please  to  live. 
Dr.  Johnson  :  Pro.  On  Opening  Drury  Lane 

580  Theatre. 

Dreams. 

I  talk  of  dreams 
Which  are  the  children  of  an  idle  brain, 
Begot  of  nothing  but  vain  fantasy; 
Which  is  as  thin  of  substance  as  the  air; 
And  more  inconstant  than  the  wind. 

581  Shaks.  :  Rom.  and  Jul,  Act  i.,  Sc.  4. 


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Dreams  in  their  development  have  breath, 
And  tears,  and  tortures,  and  the  touch  of  joy. 

582  Byron:  Dream,  St.  1. 

Some  dreams  we  have  are  nothing  else  but  dreams, 
Unnatural  and  full  of  contradictions ; 
Yet  others  of  our  most  romantic  schemes 
Are  something  more  tlian  fictions. 

583  Hood  :   The  Haunted  House. 

Like  glimpses  of  forgotten  dreams. 

584  Texnysox  :   The  Tiro  Voices,  St.  cxxvii. 

Dress. 

Be  plain  in  dress,  and  sober  in  your  diet ; 
In  short,  my  deary,  kiss  me,  and  be  quiet. 

Lady  M.  W.  Montagu  :  A  Summary  of 

585  Lord  Lyttelton's  Advice. 

"We  sacrifice  to  dress,  till  household  joys 
And  comforts  cease.     Dress  drains  our  cellar  dry, 
And  keeps  our  larder  lean ;  puts  out  our  fires, 
And  introduces  hunger,  frost,  and  woe, 
"Where  peace  and  hospitality  might  reign. 

586  CowpER  :   Task,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  614. 

Drink  —  Drinking  —  Drunkenness. 

Oh,  that  men  should  put  an  enemy  in 
Their  mouths,  to  steal  away  their  brains!  that  we 
Should,  with  joy,  pleasance,  revel  and  applause. 
Transform  ourselves  into  beasts! 

587  Shaks.  :  Otiiello,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  3. 

Give  him  strong  drink  until  he  wink, 
That's  sinking  in  despair; 
An'  liquor  guid  to  fire  his  bluid, 
That 's  prest  wi'  grief  an'  care. 


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There  let  him  bouse  and  deep  carouse, 
Wi'  bumpers  flowing  o'er, 
Till  he  forgets  his  loves  or  debts, 
An'  minds  his  griefs  no  more. 

588  Burns  :  Scotch  DrinL 
Dryden. 

\\'aller  was  smooth  ;  but  Dryden  taught  to  join 
The  varying  verse,  the  full  resounding  line. 
The  long  majestic  march,  and  energy  divine. 

589  Pope:  Satire  v..  Line  2G7. 

Duelling. 

Some  fiery  fop,  with  new  commission  vain. 
Who  sleeps  on  brambles  till  he  kills  his  man ; 
Some  frolic  drunkard,  reeling  from  a  feast, 
Provokes  a  broil,  and  stabs  you  for  a  jest. 

590  Dr.  «JoiiNSON  :  London. 

Dunce. 

How  much  a  dunce,  that  has  been  sent  to  roam, 
Excels  a  dunce,  that  has  been  kept  at  home. 

591  CowPER  :  Prog,  of  Error,  \ Awe.  4i\h. 

Dungeon. 

Dweller  in  yon  dungeon  dark. 
Hangman  of  creation,  mark  ! 

592  Burns:  Ode  on  Mrs.  OswahL 

Duty. 

Stern  Daughter  of  the  Voice  of  God ! 

O  Duty !  if  that  name  thou  love 

Who  art  a  light  to  guide,  a  rod 

To  check  the  erring,  and  reprove; 

Thou,  who  art  victory  and  law 

When  empty  terrors  overawe  ; 

From  vain  temptations  dost  set  free; 

And  calm'st  the  weary  strife  of  frail  humanity ! 

593  Wordsworth  :  Ode  to  Duty. 


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Eagle. 

So  the  struck  eagle,  stretch'd  upon  the  plain, 
No  more  through  rolling  clouds  to  soar  again, 
Yipw'd  his  own  feather  on  the  fatal  dart, 
And  wing'd  the  shaft  that  quiver'd  in  his  heart. 
Byron:  English  Bards  and  Scotch  Reviewers. 

594  Line  826. 

Ear. 

"Where  more  is  meaut  than  meets  the  ear. 

595  Milton  :  II  Penseroso,  Line  120. 

Earth. 

The  earth  doth  like  a  snake  renew 
Her  winter  weeds  outworn. 

596  Shelley  :  Hellas,  Line  1060. 

Earth  felt  the  wound ;  and  Nature  from  her  seat, 
Sighing  through  all  her  works,  gave  signs  of  woe 
That  all  was  lost. 

597  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ix..  Line  782. 

Upon  my  burned  body  lie  lightly,  gentle  earth. 
Beaumont  and  Fletcher  :  Maid's  Tragedy, 

598  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

Earth  with  her  thousand  voices  praises  God. 

599  Coleridge:  Hymn  in  the  Vale  of  Chamouni. 

Ease. 

Ease  would  recant 
Vows  made  in  pain,  as  violent  and  void. 

600  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  96. 


96       DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

East. 

An  hour  before  the  worshipp'd  sun 
Peered  forth  tlie  golden  window  of  tlie  east. 
601  Shaks.  :  Rum.  and  Jul.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Easter. 

llise,  heart ;  thy  Lord  is  risen.  Sing  His  praise 
Without  delays, 

Who  takes  thee  by  the  hand,  that  thou  likewise 
\\'ith  Ilim  mayst  rise: 

That,  as  His  death  calcined  thee  to  dust, 

His  life  may  make  thee  gold,  and,  much  more,  just. 

002  Herbert:  The  Church.     Easter. 

Eating. 

Unquiet  meals  make  ill  digestions. 

603  SiiAKS. :   Com.  of  Errors,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Some  hae  meat  and  canna  eat. 

And  some  would  eat  that  want  it; 
But  we  hae  meat,  and  we  can  eat, 

Sae  let  the  Lord  be  thankit. 

604  Burns:  Grace  before  Meat. 

Echo. 

Echo  waits  with  art  and  care 
And  will  the  faults  of  song  repair. 

605  Emerson  :  May- Day,  Line  439. 

O  love,  they  die,  in  yon  rich  sky, 
They  faint  on  hill  or  field  or  river: 
Our  echoes  roll  from  soul  to  soul. 
And  gro.w  for  ever  and  for  ever. 

606  Tennyson  :  The  Princess,  Pt.  iii.,  Song. 


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Eclipse. 

The  sun,  .  .  . 
Ill  dim  eclipse,  disastrous  twilight  sheds 
On  half  the  nations,  and  with  fear  of  change 
Perplexes  monarchs. 
6U7  MiLTOx:  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  i.,  Line  597. 

Eden. 

They  hand  in  hand,  with  w^and'ring  steps  and  slow, 
Through  Eden  took  their  solitary  way. 

608  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  xii..  Line  645. 

Education. 

'Tis  education  forms  the  common  mind; 
Just  as  the  twig  is  bent,  the  tree  's  inclin'd. 

609  Pope  :  Moral  Essays,  Epis.  i.,  Line  149. 

Eloquence. 

His  tongue 
Dropt  manna,  and  could  make  the  worse  appear 
The  better  reason,  to  perplex  and  dash 
Maturest  counsels. 

610  MiLTOx  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  113. 

Emerson. 

There   comes    Emerson   first,   whose    rich   words, 

every  one, 
Are  like  gold  nails  in  temples  to  hang  trophies  on. 

611  James  Bussell  Lowell:  ^4  Fable  for  Critics. 

Eminence. 

He  who  ascends  to  mountain  tops  shall  find 

The   loftiest   peaks  most  wrapp'd  in  clouds  and 

snow ; 
He  who  surpasses  or  subdues  mankind, 
Must  look  down  on  the  hate  of  those  below. 

612  Byron  :  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iii.,  St.  45. 


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Empire. 

Hands  that  the  rod  of  empire  might  have  sway'd, 
Or  waked  to  ecstasy  the  living  lyre. 

613  Okay  :  Elegy,  St.  12. 

End. 

Life  's  but  a  means  unto  an  end ;  that  end 
Beginning,  mean,  and  end  to  all  things,  —  God. 

614  Bailey:   Festus,  Sc.  A  Country  Town. 

Endurance. 

'T  is  not  now  who  's  stout  and  bold? 
But  who  bears  hnnger  best,  and  cold? 
And  he  's  approv'd  the  most  deserving. 
Who  longest  can  hold  out  at  starving. 

Butler  :  Hudibros,  Pt.  iii.,  Canto  iii., 
015  Line  353. 

England. 

0  P^ngland  !  —  model  to  thy  inward  greatness, 
Like  little  body  with  a  mighty  heart,  — 

What  mightst  thou  do,  that  honor  would  thee  do, 
Were  all  thy  children  kind  and  natural ! 

616  Shaks.:  Henry  V.,  Act  i..  Chorus. 

Enmity. 

■*T  is  death  to  me  to  be  at  enmity ; 

1  hate  it,  and  desire  all  good  men's  love. 

617  Shaks.  :  Richard  III.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Ensign. 

Ay,  tear  her  tattered  ensign  down  1 

Long  has  it  waved  on  high, 
And  many  an  eye  has  danced  to  see 

That  banner  in  the  sky. 

618  Oliveh  Wendell  Holmes:  Old  Ironsides. 


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Enthusiasm. 

Rash  enthusiasm,  in  good  society- 
Were  nothing  but  a  moral  inebriety. 

619  Byron  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  xiii.,  Line  35. 

Envy. 

Fools  may  our  scorn,  not  envy,  raise, 
For  envy  is  a  kind  of  praise. 

620  Gay  :  Fables,  Pt.  i.,  Fable  44. 


Envy  will  merit,  as  its  shade,  pursue ; 

But,  like  a  shadow,  proves  the  substance  true. 

621  Pope:   E.  on  Criticism,  Pt.  ii.,  Line  266. 

Base  envy  withers  at  another's  joy, 

And  hates  that  excellence  it  cannot  reach. 

622  Thomson  :  Seasons,  Spring,  Line  284. 

Epitaphs. 

Nobles  and  heralds,  by  your  leave. 
Here  lies  what  once  was  Matthew  Prior, 
The  son  of  Adam  and  of  Eve : 
Can  Bourbon  or  Nassau  claim  higher? 

623  Pkior  :  Ep.  Extempore. 

Here  rests  h^  head,  upon  the  lap  of  earth, 
A  youth  to  fortune  and  to  fame  unknown; 

Fair  Science  frown'd  not  on  his  humble  birth, 
And  Melancholy  mark'd  him  for  her  own. 

624  Gray  :  Elegi/,  Epitaph. 

Equality. 

The  trickling  rain  doth  fall 
Upon  us  one  and  all ; 


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The  south  ^^ilul  kisses 

The  saucy  milkmaid's  cheek, 

The  uuu's  demure  and  meek, 

Nor  any  misses. 

C-^5  E.  C.  Stedman  :  .1  Madrir/al,  St.  3. 

Error. 

Shall  Error  in  the  round  of  time 
Still  father  Truth  ? 
C2G  Tennyson  :  Luce  and  Duly. 

But  Error,  wounded,  writhes  with  pain, 
And  dies  an)ong  his  worshippers. 

627  William  Cullen  Bryant  :  The  Bailie-Field. 

Eternity. 

Beyond  is  all  abyss. 
Eternity,  whose  end  no  eye  can  reach. 

628  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  xii.,  Line  555. 

Eternity !  thou  pleasing,  dreadful  thought ! 

629  Addison  :  Cato,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Europe. 

Better  fifty  years  of  Europe  than  a  cj'cle  of  Cathay. 

630  Tennyson  :  Locksley  Hall,  Line  184. 

Eve. 

Adam  the  goodliest  man  of  men  since  born 
His  sons,  the  fairest  of  her  daughters.  Eve. 

631  Milton  :  Par.  Lost.,  Bk.  iv..  Line  323. 

Evening. 

The  day  is  done,  and  the  darkness 

Falls  from  the  wings  of  Night, 
As  a  feather  is  wafted  downward 

From  an  eagle  in  his  flight. 

632  Longfellow  :    The  Day  is  Done. 


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The  sun  is  set ;  the  swallows  are  asleep ; 

The  bats  are  flitting  fast  in  the  gray  air ; 

The  slow  soft  toads  out  of  damp  corners  creep ; 

And  evening's  breath,  wandering  here  and  there 

Over  the  quivering  surface  of  the  stream, 

AVakes  not  one  ripple  from  its  silent  dream. 

633  Shellf.y:  Evening. 

Evil. 

Farewell  hope  !  and  with  hope,  farewell  fear  ! 

Farewell  remorse  !  all  good  to  me  is  lost. 

Evil,  be  thou  my  good ;  by  thee  at  least 

Divided  empire  with  heaven's  king  I  hold. 

G34  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  108. 

Evil  springs  up,  and  flowers,  and  bears  no  seed. 
And  feeds  the  green  earth  with  its  swift  decay, 
Leaving  it  richer  for  the  growth  of  truth. 
635  James  Russell  Lowell  :  Prometheus. 

Example. 

The  evil  that  men  do  lives  after  them. 

The  good  is  oft  interred  with  their  bones. 

63G  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

By  his  life  alone, 
Gracious  and  sweet,  the  better  way  was  shown. 

637  Wiiittier  :   The  Pennsylvania  Pilgrim. 

Escess. 

To  gild  refined  gold,  to  paint  the  lily, 

To  throw  a  perfume  on  the  violet, 

To  smooth  the  ice,  or  add  another  hue 

Unto  the  rainbow,  or  with  taper-light 

To  seek  the  beauteous  eye  of  Heaven  to  garnish, 

Is  wasteful  and  ridiculous  excess. 

638  Shaks.  :  King  John.  Act  iv.,  Sc.  2. 


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Exile. 

Beheld  the  duteous  son,  the  sire  decayed, 
The  modest  matron,  and  the  blushing  maid, 
Forc'd  from  their  homes,  a  melancholy  train, 
To  traverse  climes  beyond  the  Western  main, 
639  Goldsmith  :   Traveller,  Line  407. 

Expectation. 

'T  is  expectation  makes  a  blessing  dear; 

Heaven  were  not  heaven  if  we  knew  what  it  were. 

040  Suckling:  A yuln^t  Fruition. 

Experience. 

J-ixperience  is  by  industry  achieved. 

And  perfected  by  the  swift  cotn-se  of  time. 

041  Shaks.  :   Two  Gent,  of  V.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

His  head  was  silver'd  o'er  with  age. 
And  long  experience  made  him  sage. 

Gay,  Fables,  Pt.  i..  The  Shepherd  and 

642  the  Philosopher. 

Extremes. 

Extremes  in  nature  equal  good  produce. 
Extremes  in  man  concur  to  general  use. 

643  Pope  :  Moral  Essays,  Epis.  iii.,  Line  16L 

Eyes. 

Two  of  the  fairest  stars  in  all  the  heaven, 
Having  some  business,  do  entreat  her  eyes 
To  twinkle  in  their  spheres  till  they  return. 

644  Shaks.  :  Rom.  and  Jul.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

True  eyes 
Too  pure  and  too  honest  in  aught  to  disguise 
The  sweet  soul  shining  thro'  them. 

Owen  Meredith  :  Lucilc,  Pt  ii., 

645  Canto  ii.,  St.  3. 


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There  are  eyes  half  defiant, 

Half  ineek  and  compliant; 

Black  eyes,  with  a  wondrous,  witching  charm 

To  bring  us  good  or  to  work  us  harm. 

646  Ph(EBE  Gary  :  Doves'  Eyes. 

Soul-deep  eyes  of  darkest  night. 

6i7  JoAQUix  Miller  :   Califomian,  Pt.  iv. 

Her  eyes  are  homes  of  silent  pra^^er. 

Tennyson:  In  Memoriam,  Pt.  xxxii., 

648  St.  1. 

The  bright  black  eye,  the  melting  blue,  — 
1  cannot  choose  between  the  two. 

649  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  :  The  Dilemma. 

These  poor  eyes,  you  called,  I  w^een, 
"  Sweetest  eyes  were  ever  seen." 

650  Mrs.  Browning  :   Catarina  to  Camoens. 

Soft  eyes  look'd  love  to  eyes  which  spake  again, 
And  all  went  merry  as  a  marriage  bell. 

651  Byron  :  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iii.,  St.  21. 


P. 

Fabric. 

Anon  out  of  the  earth  a  fabric  huge 

Kose,  like  an  exhalation. 

6.52  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  i..  Line  710. 

Face. 

Your  face,  my  Thane,  is  as  a  book,  where  men 

May  read  strange  matters. 

653  Shaks.  :  Macbeth.  Act  i.,  Sc.  5. 


104    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL   QUOTATIONS. 

The  light  upon  her  face 
Shines  from  the  windows  of  another  world. 
Saints  only  have  such  faces. 

654  Longfellow:  Mu-JkicI  Anr/elo,  Pt.  ii.,  6. 

Can't  I  another's  face  commend, 
And  to  her  virtues  be  a  friend, 
But  instantly  your  forehead  lowers, 
As  if  her  merit  lessen'd  yours? 

MoORE  :    The  Farmer,  the  Spaniel,  and 

655  the  Cat,  Fable  ix. 

Behind  a  frowning  providence 
He  hides  a  shining  face. 

656  CowPER  :  Light  Shining  out  of  Darkness. 

Fair. 

Fair  is  foul,  and  foul  is  fair. 

657  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Exceeding  fair  she  was  not ;  and  yet  fair 

In  that  she  never  studied  to  be  fairer 

Than  Nature  made  her ;  beauty  cost  her  nothing, 

Her  virtues  were  so  rare. 

658  George  Chapman  :  All  Fools,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Fairies. 

This  is  the  fairy  land ;  O  spite  of  spites, 

"We  talk  with  goblins,  owls,  and  elvish  sprites. 

659  SiiAKS. :   Co7n.  of  Errors,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

Faith. 

If  faith  produce  no  works,  I  see 
That  faith  is  not  a  living  tree. 

660  Hannah  More:  Dan  and  Jane. 


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Whose  faith  has  centre  everywhere, 
Xor  cares  to  fix  itself  to  form. 

Tennyson  :  In  Memoriam,  Pt.  xxxiii., 

661  St.  1 

'T  is  hers  to  pluck  the  amaranthine  flower 
Of  faith,  and  round  the  sufferer's  temples  bind 
AVreaths  that  endure  affliction's  heaviest  shower, 
And  do  not  shrink  from  sorrow's  keenest  wind. 

662  Wordsworth:   Weak  is  the  Will  of  Man. 

For  modes  of  faith  let  graceless  zealots  fight ; 
His  can't  be  wrong  whose  life  is  in  the  right. 

663  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  iii.,  Line  303. 

FaU. 

He  that  is  down  needs  fear  no  fall. 

BuNYAx:   The  Author's  War/ of  Sending 
QQ4:  forth  his  Second  Part  of  the  Pilgrim,  Pt.  ii. 

Falsity. 

As  false 
As  air,  as  water,  as  wind,  as  sandy  earth ; 
As  fox  to  lamb  ;  as  wolf  to  heifer's  calf; 
Pard  to  the  hind,  or  stepdame  to  her  son. 
66.5  Shaks.  :   Trail,  and  Cress.,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

Fame. 

Let  fame,  that  all  hunt  after  in  their  lives, 
Live  register'd  upon  our  brazen  tombs. 

666  Shaks.  :  Love's  L.  Lost,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Fame,  if  not  double-faced,  is  double-mouthed, 
And  with  contrary  blast  proclaims  most  deeds : 
On  both  his  wings,  one  black,  the  other  white, 
Bears  greatest  names  in  his  wild  aery  flight. 

667  Milton:  Samson  Agonistes,  Line  97L 


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What  *s  fame  ?  a  fancied  life  in  others'  breath, 
A  thing  beyond  us,  even  before  our  death. 

668  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  iv..  Line  237. 

There  was  a  morning  when  I  longed  for  fame, 
'J'here  was  a  noontide  when  I  passed  it  by, 

There  is  an  evening  when  1  think  not  shame 
Its  substance  and  its  being  to  deny. 

Jean  Ingelow  :   The  Star's  Monument, 

669  St.  81. 

Ah !  who  can  tell  how  hard  it  is  to  climb 

The  steep  where  Fame's  proud  temple  shines  afar? 

670  Beattie  :  Minstrel,  Bk.  i.,  St.  1. 

Or  ravish'd  with  the  whistling  of  a  name, 
See  Cromwell,  damn'd  to  everlasting  fame! 

671  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Kpis.  iv.,  Line  281. 

Family. 

Birds  in  their  little  nest  agree ; 

And  't  is  a  shameful  sight 
When  children  of  one  family 

Fall  out,  and  chide,  and  fight. 

•  672  Watts:  Divine  Songs,  Song  xvii. 

Famine. 

Famine  is  in  thy  cheeks. 

673  SiiAKS. :  Rom.  and  Jul,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Fancy. 

Tell  me,  where  is  fancy  bred ; 
Or  in  the  heart,  or  in  the  head? 
How  begot,  how  nourished? 


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Reply,  reply. 

It  is  engendered  in  the  eyes, 

With  gazing  fed  :  and  fancy  dies 

In  the  cradle  ^vhe^e  it  lies. 

Q74:      Shaks.  :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2.    Song. 

She  's  all  my  fancy  painted  her; 
She  's  lovely,  she  's  divine. 

675  William  Mee  :  Alice  Gray. 

FareTvell. 

Farewell  I     Farewell  I     Through  keen  delights 
It  strikes  two  hearts,  this  word  of  woe. 
Through  every  joy  of  life  it  smites,  — 
Why,  sometime  they  will  know. 

676  Mary  Clemmer  :  Farewell. 

Farewell !  a  word  that  must  be,  and  hath  been  : 
A  sound  which  makes  us  linger; — yet  —  farewell! 

677  Byron  :  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iv.,  St.  186. 

Fashion. 

The  fashion  wears  out  more  apparel  than  the  man. 

678  Shaks.  :  Mitch  Ado,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  3. 

Fate. 

What  fates  impose,  that  men  must  needs  abide  ; 
It  boots  not  to  resist  both  wind  and  tide. 

679  Shaks.  :  3  Henri/  VL,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

All  human  things  are  subject  to  decay, 

And  when  fate  summons,  raonarchs  must  obey. 

680  Dryden  :  MacFlecknoe,  Line  1. 

Things  are  where  things  are,  and,  as  fate  has  willed, 
So  shall  they  be  fulfilled. 

681  Robert  Browning:  Agamemnon. 


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And  binding  Nature  fast  in  fate, 
Left  free  the  liunian  will. 

682  Pope  :   The   Universal  Prayer,  St.  3. 

For  fate  has  wove  the  thread  of  life  with  pain, 
And  twins  ev'n  from  the  bii'tli  are  misery  and  man  ! 

683  PoPK  :  Odyssey,  Bk.  vii..  Line  2Go. 

Father. 

Jt  is  a  wise  father  tliat  knows  liis  own  child. 

684  SiiAKs.:  M.  of  Venice,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

Father  of  all !  in  every  age, 

In  every  clime  adored, 
By  saint,  by  savage,  and  by  sage, 

Jehovah,  Jove,  or  Lord. 

685  Pope:   The   Universal  Prayer,  St.  1. 

Fault  —  Faults. 

Condemn  the  fault,  and  not  the  actor  of  it? 

686  Shaks.  :  M.  for  M.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

Dare  to  be  true  :  nothing  can  need  a  lie ; 

A  fault  which  needs  it  most,  grows  two  thereby. 

687  Herbert:    The  Church  Porch. 

In  vain  my  faults  ye  quote ; 
I  WTite  as  others  wrote 
On  Sunium's  hight. 

Walter  Savage  Landor  :   Jlie  Last 

688  Fruit  of  an  Old  Tree,  Epigram  cvi. 

Favor. 

Poor  wretches,  that  depend 
On  greatness'  favor,  dream  as  1  have  done ; 
Wake,  and  find  nothing.     But,  alas,  I  swerve. 


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Many  dream  not  to  find,  neither  deserve, 
And  yet  are  steep'd  in  favors. 

689  Shaks.  :   Cymbeline,  Act  v.,  Sc.  4. 

Fawning, 

And  crook  tlie  pregnant  hinges  of  the  knee, 
Where  thrift  may  follow  fawning. 

690  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

Fear. 

Why,  what  should  be  the  fear? 
I  do  not  set  my  life  at  a  pin's  fee ; 
And,  for  my  soul,  what  can  it  do  to  that, 
Being  a  thing  immortal  as  itself? 

691  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  4. 

Of  all  base  passions  fear  is  most  accm-s'd. 

692  Shaks.  :  1  Henrij  VI..  Act  v.,  Sc.  2. 

Desponding  fear,  of  feeble  fancies  full. 
Weak  and  unmanly,  loosens  ev'ry  power. 

693  Thomson  :   Seasons,  Spring,  Line  286. 

The  fear  o'  hell 's  a  hangman's  whip 

To  baud  the  wretch  in  order ; 
But  where  ye  feel  your  honor  grip, 

Let  that  aye  be  your  border. 

694  Burns  :  Ej).  to  a  Young  Friend. 

Feasting. 

Blest  be  those  feasts  with  simple  plenty  crown'd. 
Where  all  the  ruddy  family  around 
Laugh  at  the  jests  or  pranks  that  never  fail. 
Or  sigh  with  pity  at  some  mournful  tale. 

695  Goldsmith  :   lYareller,  Line  17. 


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Swinish  gluttony 
Ne'er  looks  to  heav'n  amidst  his  gorgeous  feast, 
But  with  hesotted  base  ingratitude 
Crams,  and  blasphemes  his  feeder. 

696  Milton  :   Comus,  Line  776. 

February. 

Come  when  the  rains 
Have  glazed  the  snow  and  clothed  the  trees  with 

ice, 
AVhile  the  slant  sun  of  February  pours 
Into  the  bowers  a  flood  of  light. 

697  William  CuLLEN  Bryant  :  ^4  Winter  Piece. 

Feeling. 

But  spite  of  all  the  criticising  elves, 
Those  who  would  make  us  feel,  must  feel  them- 
selves. 

698  Churchill:  Rosciad,  hine  961. 

Feet. 

Like  snails  did  creep  her  pretty  feet 

A  little  out,  and  then. 
As  if  they  played  at  bo-peep, 

Did  soon  draw  in  again. 

699  Herrick  :  Aph.  Upon  Her  Feet. 

Fellow. 

Li  all  thy  humors,  whether  grave  or  mellow, 
Thou  'rt  such  a  touchy,  testy,  pleasant  fellow. 
Hast  so  much  wit  and  mirth  and  spleen  about  thee, 
There  is  no  living  with  thee,  nor  without  thee. 

700  Addison:  Spectator.     No.  08. 

Female. 

But  who  is  this,  what  thing  of  sea  or  land, — 
Female  of  sex  it  seems. 

701  Milton  :  Samson  Agonistes,  Line  710. 


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Fickleness. 

Who  o'er  the  herd  would  wish  to  reign, 
Fantastic,  fickle,  fierce,  and  vain  ! 
Vain  as  the  leaf  upon  the  stream, 
And  fickle  as  a  changeful  dream. 

702  Scott:  Lady  of  the  Lake,  Canto  v.,  St.  10. 

Fiction. 

^Vhen  fiction  rises  pleasing  to  the  eye. 
Men  will  believe,  because  they  love  the  lie; 
But  truth  herself,  if  clouded  with  a  frown, 
Must  have  some  solemn  proof  to  pass  her  down. 

703  Churchill  :  Epi^.  to  Hogarth,  Line  291. 

And  truth  severe,  by  fairy  fiction  drest. 

701  GrayT  The  Bard,  Ft.  iii.,  St.  3. 

Fidelity. 

Master,  go  on,  and  I  will  follow  thee 
To  the  last  gasp,  with  truth  and  loyalty. 

705  Shaks.  :  As  You  Like  Lt,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  3. 

To  God,  thy  country,  and  thy  friend  be  true. 

706  Henry  Yaughan  :  Rules  and  Lessons,  St.  8. 

Fields. 

"Wept  o'er  his  wounds,  or  tales  of  sorrow  done, 
Shoulder'd  his  crutch,  and  show'd  how  fields  were 
won. 

707  Goldsmith  :  Des.  Village. 

Fiend. 

Like  one  that  on  a  lonesome  road 

Doth  walk  in  fear  and  dread. 

And  having  once  turned  round  walks  on, 


112    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

And  turns  no  more  his  head, 

Because  he  knows  a  I'rightful  fiend 

Doth  close  behind  him  tread. 

70S  Coleridge:   The  Aticient  Mariner,  Ti.  vi. 

righting. 

I  '11  fight,  till  from  my  bones  my  flesh  be  hack'd. 

709  SiiAKS. :  Macbeth,  Act  v.,  Sc.  3. 

He  who  fights  and  runs  away, 
May  live  to  fight  another  day ; 
But  he  who  is  in  battle  slain 
Can  never  rise  and  fight  again. 

710  Goldsmith  :  Art  of  Poetry. 

Fire. 

From  beds  of  raging  fire  to  starve  in  ice 
Their  soft  ethereal  warmth,  and  there  to  pine, 
Immovable,  infix'd,  and  frozen  round. 
Periods  of  time;  thence  hurried  back  to  fire. 

711  Milton:  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  592. 

Firmament. 

Xow  glow'd  the  firmament 
With  living  sax')phires. 

712  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  598. 

The  spacious  firmament  on  high, 
AVith  all  the  blue  ethereal  sky. 
And  spangled  heavens,  a  shining  frame, 
Their  great  Original  proclaim. 

713  Addison:  Ode. 
Flag. 

Flag  of  the  free  heart's  hope  and  home  I 

By  angel  hands  to  valor  given  ; 

Thy  stars  have  lit  the  welkin  dome, 

And  all  thy  hues  were  born  in  heaven. 

711    Joseph  Rodman  Drake  :  The  A  merican  Flag. 


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The  meteor  flag  of  England 
Shall  yet  territic  burn, 
Till  danger's  troubled  night  depart, 
And  the  star  of  peace  return. 

715  Campbell  :  Mariners  of  England. 

Flame. 

Glory  pursue,  and  gen'rous  shame, 

Th'  unconquerable  mind,  and  freedom's  holy  flame. 

716  Gray  :  Prog,  of  Poesy,  Pt.  ii.,  St.  2,  Line  10. 

The  flame  that  lit  the  battle's  wreck 
Shone  round  him  o'er  the  dead. 

717  Hemaxs  :  Casablanca. 

Flattery. 

By  heav'n  I  cannot  flatter :  I  do  defy 
The  tongues  of  soothers;  but  a  braver  place 
In  my  heart's  love,  hath  no  man  than  yourself; 
Nay,  task  me  to  my  word;  approve  me,  lord. 

718  Shaks.  :  1  Henry  IV.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

'T  is  an  old  maxim  in  the  schools. 
That  flattery  's  the  food  of  fools  ; 
Yet,  now  and  then,  your  men  of  wit 
Will  condescend  to  take  a  bit. 
719  Swift:   Cadenus  and  Vanessa,  Line  755. 

Can  honor's  voice  provoke  the  silent  dust. 
Or  flatt'ry  soothe  the  dull  cold  ear  of  death? 

720  Gray:  Elegy,  St.  11. 

Flea. 

So,  naturalists  observe,  a  flea 
Has  smaller  fleas  that  on  him  prey; 
And  these  have  smaller  still  to  bite  'em; 
And  so  proceed  ad  infinitum. 

721  Swift  :  Poetry,  A  Rhapsody. 


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Flesh. 

oil,  tliat  this  too  too  solid  flesh  would  melt, 
Thaw  and  resolve  itself  into  a  dew! 

722  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Flirtation. 

Never  wedding,  ever  wooing, 

Still  a  love-lorn  heart  pursuing, 

Read  you  not  the  wrong  you  're  doing, 

In  my  cheek's  pale  hue? 

All  my  life  with  sorrow  strewing, 

Wed,  or  cease  to  woo. 

723  Campbell  :  Maid's  Remonstrance. 

Flood. 

Barest  thou,  Cassius,  now 
Leap  in  with  me  into  this  angry  flood, 
And  swim  to  yonder  point? 

724  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

Flowers. 

The  gentle  race  of  flowers 
Are  lying  in  their  lowly  bed?. 

William  Cullen  Bryant:  Death  of  the 

725  Flowers. 

Flowers  preach  to  us  if  we  will  hear. 
Chris.  G.  Rossetti  :   Consider  the  Lilies  of  the 

726  Kield. 

In  Eastern  lands  they  talk  in  flowers, 
And  they  tell  in  a  garland  their  loves  and  cares; 
Each  blossom  that  blooms  in  their  garden  bowers 
On  its  leaves  a  mystic  language  bears. 

727  J.  G.  Percival:  Language  of  the  Flowers. 


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Ye  living  flowers  that  skirt  the  eternal  frost. 

728  Coleridge;  Hymn  in  the  Vale  of  Cliamouni. 

Foe. 

Give  me  the  avowed,  the  erect,  the  manly  foe, 
Bold  I  can  meet,  —  perhaps  may  turn  his  blow! 
But  of  all  plagues,  good  Heaven,  thy  wrath  can 

send, 
Save,  save,  oh  save  me  from  the  candid  friend! 

729  George  Canning  :  Neic  Morality. 

Folly. 

Fools,  to  talking  ever  prone, 
Are  sure  to  make  their  follies  known, 

730  Gay  :  Fables,  Ft.  i..  Fable  44. 


If  folly  grow  romantic,  I  must  paint  it. 

731  Pope  :  Moral  Essays,  Epis.  ii.,  Line  15. 

Where  lives  the  man  that  has  not  tried 
How  mirth  can  into  folly  glide, 
And  folly  into  sin ! 

732  Scott:  Bridal  of  Triermain,  Canto  i.,  St.  21. 

When  lovely  woman  stoops  to  folly, 
And  finds  too  late  that  men  betray, 

What  charm  can  soothe  her  melancholy? 
What  art  can  wash  her  guilt  away? 

733  Goldsmith:   The  Hermit,  Ch.  xxiv. 

Fools. 

Fools  are  my  theme,  let  satire  be  my  song. 

Byron  :  English  Bards  and  Scotch  Reviewers, 

734  Line  6. 


116    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Since  call'd 
The  Paradise  of  Fools,  to  few  unknown. 

735  JNliLTON:  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iii.,  Line  495. 

And  ever  since  tlie  Conquest  have  been  fools. 
Earl  of  Rochester  :  Artemisia  in  the  Town 

736  to  Chloe  in  the  Country. 

For  fools  rush  in  where  angels  fear  to  tread. 

737  Pope:  E.  on  Criticism,  Pt.  iii.,  Line  66. 

Footprints. 

Lives  of  great  men  all  remind  us 

We  can  make  our  lives  sublime, 
And  departing,  leave  behind  us 

Footprints  on  the  sands  of  time. 

738  Longfellow:  A  Psalm  of  Life- 

Forbearance. 

The  kindest  and  the  happiest  pair 
Will  find  occasion  to  forbear; 
And  something,  eveiy  day  they  live, 
To  pity,  and  perhaps  forgive. 

739  CowPER :  Mutual  Forhearance. 

Force. 

Who  overcomes 
By  force,  hath  overcome  but  half  his  foe. 

740  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  i.,  Line  648. 

Forest. 

Summer  or  winter,  day  or  night, 

The  woods  are  an  ever-new  delight; 

They  give  us  peace,  and  they  make  us  strong. 

Such  wonderful  balms  to  them  belong : 

So,  living  or  dying,  I  '11  take  mine  ease 

lender  the  trees,  under  the  trees. 

741  K.  H.  Stoddard  :   Under  the  Trees. 


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This  is  the  forest  primeval. 

742  Longfellow  :  Evangeline,  Introduction. 

Forgetfulness. 

Not  in  entire  forgetfuhiess, 
And  not  in  utter  nakedness, 
But  trailing  clouds  of  glory,  do  we  come 
From  God,  who  is  our  home. 

743  Wordsworth  :  Intimations  of  Immortality, 

God  of  our  fathers,  known  of  old  — 

Lord  of  our  far-flung  battle  line  — 
Beneath  whose  awful  liand  we  hold 

Dominion  over  palm  and  pine  — 
Lord  God  of  Hosts,  be  with  us  yet, 
Lest  we  forget  —  lest  we  forget. 

744  RuDYARD  Kipling  :  Recessional. 

Forgiveness. 

Good  nature  and  good  sense  must  ever  join  ; 
To  err  is  human,  to  forgive  divine. 

745  Pope  :  E.  on  Criticism,  Ft.  ii..  Line  324. 

They  who  forgive  most  shall  be  most  foigiven. 

746  Bailey:  Festus,  Se.  Home. 

Good,  to  forgive ; 
Best  to  forget  I 

747  Robert  Browning  :  La  Saisiaz,  Frologue. 

Form. 

She  was  a  form  of  life  and  light 
That  seen,  became  a  part  of  sight, 
And  rose,  where'er  I  turn'd  mine  eye, 
The  morning-star  of  memory! 

748  Byron  :  Giaour,  Line  1127. 


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Fortitude. 

True  fortitude  is  seen  in  great  exploits 

Tliat  justice  warrants,  and  that  wisdom  guides; 

All  else  is  tow 'ring  frenzy  and  distraction. 

749  Addison:  Cato,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Fortune. 

Will  fortune  never  come  with  both  hands  full, 
But  write  her  fair  words  still  in  foulest  letters? 
She  either  gives  a  stomach,  and  no  food, — 
Such  as  are  the  poor  in  health ;  or  else  a  feast, 
And  takes  away  the  stomach,  —  such  are  the  rich. 
That  have  abundance,  and  enjoy  it  not. 

750  Shaks.  :  2  Henry  I  V.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  4. 

Fortune  is  female :  from  my  youth  her  favors 
Were  not  withheld,  the  fault  was  mine  to  hope 
Her  former  smiles  again  at  this  late  hour. 

751  Byron:  Mar.  Faliero,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Forever,  Fortune,  wilt  thou  prove 
An  unrelenting  foe  to  love  ; 
And  when  we  meet  a  mutual  heart, 
Come  in  between  and  bid  us  part? 

752  Thomson  :  Song. 

Frailty. 

Frailty,  thy  name  is  Woman ! 

753  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

I  am  the  cygnet  to  this  pale  faint  swan, 
AVho  chants  a  doleful  hymn  to  his  own  death, 
And  from  the  organ-pipe  of  frailty  sings 
His  soul  and  body  to  their  lasting  rest. 

754  Shaks.  :  King  John,  Act  v.,  Sc.  7. 


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France. 

'T  is  better  using  France,  than  trusting  France ; 
Let  us  be  back'd  with  God,  and  with  the  seas, 
AVhich  he  hath  given  for  fence  impregnable, 
And  with  their  helps  only  defend  ourselves ; 
In  them,  and  ni  ourselves,  our  safety  lies. 

755  Shaks.  :  3  Henry  VI. ,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

Fraternity. 

There  are  bonds  of  all  sorts  in  this  world  of  ours, 
Fetters  of  friendship  and  ties  of  flowers. 

And  true-lovers'  knots,  I  ween  ; 
The  girl  and  the  boy  are  bound  by  a  kiss. 
But  there  's  never  a  bond,  old  friend,  like  this. 

We  have  drunk  from  the  same  canteen. 

Charles  G.  Halpine  (-'Miles 

756  O'Reilly  ")  :   The  Canteen. 

Freedom. 

We  must  be  free  or  die,  who  speak  the  tongue 
That  Shakespeare  spake;  the  faith  and  morals  hold 
Which  Milton  held. 

Wordsworth  :  Sonnet.     It  is  not  to  be 

757  thought  of,  etc. 

Oh,  Freedom  I  thou  art  not,  as  poets  dream, 
A  fair  young  girl,  with  light  and  delicate  limbs. 
And  wavy  tresses  gushing  from  the  cap 
AVith  which  the  Roman  master  crovsned  his  slave 
When  he  took  off  the  gyves.     A  bearded  man, 
Armed  to  the  teeth,  art  tliou  ;  one  mailed  hand 
Grasps  the  broad  shield,  and  one  the  sword ;  thy 

brow. 
Glorious  in  beauty  though  it  be,  is  scarred 
With  tokens  of  old  wars. 

William  Cullen  Bryant  :  A ntiquiti/  of 

758  Freedom. 


120    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

My  angel,  —  his  name  is  Freedom,  — 
Choose  him  to  be  your  king; 
He  shall  cut  pathways  east  and  west, 
And  fend  you  with  his  wing. 

759  Emerson:  Boston  Hymn, 

Then  Freedom  sternly  said  :  "  I  shun 
No  strife  nor  pang  beneath  the  sun. 
When  human  rights  are  staked  and  won." 

760  Whittier:   The  Watchers. 

When  Freedom  from  her  mountain-height 

Unfurled  her  standard  to  the  air, 
She  tore  the  azure  robe  of  night. 

And  set  the  stars  of  glory  there. 

JosErii  Rodman  Drake:  The  American 

761  Flag. 

Freeman. 

He  is  the  freeman  whom  the  truth  makes  free. 

762  CowPER  :  Task,  Bk.  v.,  Line  733. 

Friendship. 

1  count  myself  in  nothing  else  so  happy, 
As  in  a  soul  rememb'ring  my  good  friends. 

763  Shaks.  :  Pdchard  IL,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  3. 

The  friends  thou  hast,  and  their  adoption  tried, 
Grapple  them  to  thy  soul  with  hoops  of  steel ; 
But  do  not  dull  thy  palm  with  entertainment 
Of  each  new-hatch'd  unfledged  comrade. 

764  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

Oh,  be  my  friend,  and  teach  me  to  be  thine ! 

765  Emerson:  Forbearance. 


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The  friendships  of  the  world  are  oft 
Confederacies  in  vice,  or  leagues  of  pleasure. 

766  Addison  :  Cato,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

Two  friends,  two  bodies  with  one  soul  inspir'd. 

767  Pope  :  Iliad,  Bk.  xvi.,  Line  267. 

Officious,  innocent,  sincere. 

Of  every  friendless  name  the  friend. 

Dr.  Johnson  :   Verses  on  the  Death  of  Mr. 

768  Robert  Level,  St.  2. 

Small  service  is  true  service  while  it  lasts. 

Of  humblest  friends,  bright  creature !  scorn  not 

one  : 
The  daisy,  by  the  shadow  that  it  casts. 
Protects  the  lingering  dewdrop  from  the  sun. 

769  Wordsworth  :   To  a  Child. 

Front. 

His  fair  large  front  and  eye  sublime  declar'd 
Absolute  rule. 

770  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iv..  Line  297. 

Frost. 

All  the  panes  are  hung  M'ith  frost. 
Wild  wizard-work  of  silver  lace. 

771  T.  B.  Aldrich  :  Latakia. 

What  miracle  of  weird  transforming 
Is  this  wild  work  of  frost  and  light. 
This  glimpse  of  glory  infinite  I 

772  Whittiek  :   The  Pageant,  St.  8. 

But,  oh  !  fell  death's  untimely  frost 
That  nipt  my  flower  sae  early. 

773  Burns:  Highland  Mary. 


122    DICTIOXARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Fruit. 

The  ripest  fruit  first  falls. 

774  SiiAKS. :  Richard  IL,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Fury. 

Heaven  has  no  rage  like  love  to  hatred  turned, 
Nor  hell  a  fury  like  a  woman  scorned. 

775  CONGKEVE  :  Mourning  Bride,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  8. 

Beware  the  fury  of  a  patient  man. 

Dkyden  :  Absalom  and  Achitophel,  Pt.  i., 

776  Line  1005. 

Futurity. 

The  dread  of  something  after  death, 

The  undiscover'd  country,  from  whose  bourn 

No  traveller  returns,  puzzles  the  w^ill ; 

And  makes  us  rather  bear  those  ills  we  have. 

Than  fly  to  others  that  we  know  not  of. 

777  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

O  Death,  O  Beyond, 
Thou  art  sweet,  thou  art  strange ! 

Mrs.  Brow^ning  :  Rhapsody  of  Life's 

778  Progress. 

Ah  Christ,  that  it  were  possible 

For  one  short  hour  to  see 

The  souls  we  loved,  that  they  might  tell  us 

What  and  where  they  be. 

779  Tennyson  :  Maud,  Pt.  xxvi.,  St.  3. 

Trust  no  future,  howe'er  pleasant ! 
Let  the  dead  Past  bury  its  dead ! 

780  Longfellow:  Psalm  of  Life. 


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G. 

Gain. 

Remote  from  cities  liv'd  a  swain, 
Unvex'd  with  all  the  cares  of  gain. 

Gay  :  Fables,  Pt.  i.,  The  Shepherd  and  the 

781  Philosopher. 

Gale. 

So  fades  a  summer  cloud  away; 

So  sinks  the  gale  when  storms  are  o'er. 

782  Mrs.  Barbauld  :  Death  of  the  Virtuous. 

Beneath    the    milk-white   thorn   that    scents    the 

evening  gale. 
788  Burns  :   The  Cotter's  Saturday  Night. 

Gambling. 

Play  not  for  gain,  but  sport.     Who  plays  for  more 
Than  he  can  lose  with  pleasure,  stakes  his  heart; 
Perhaps  his  wife's  too,  and  whom  she  hath  bore. 

784  Herbert  :  Temple,  Church  Porch,  St.  33. 

Garden. 

A  garden,  sir, 
Wherein  all  rainbowed  flowers  were   heaped  to- 
gether. 

Charles  Kingsley:  Saint's  Tragedy, 

785  Actv.,Sc.l. 

God  the  first  garden  made,  and  the  first  city,  Cain. 

786  Cowley:   The  Garden,  Essaj  y. 

Garret. 

Born  in  the  garret,  in  the  kitchen  bred. 

787  Byron:  A  Sketch. 


124    DICTIOXAllY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Garrick. 

Here  lies  David  Garrick  —  describe  him  who  can, 
All  abridgment  of  all  that  was  pleasant  in  man. 
As  an  actor,  confess'd  without  rival  to  shine; 
As  a  wit,  if  not  first,  in  the  very  first  line; 
Yet,  with  talents  like  these,  and  an  excellent  heart, 
The  man  had  his  failings  —  a  dupe  to  his  art. 
Like  an  ill-judging  beauty,  his  colors  he  spread. 
And  beplaster'd  with  rouge  his  own  natural  red. 
On  the  stage  he  was  natural,  simple,  affecting: 
'T  was  only  that  when  he  was  off,  he  was  acting. 

788  Goldsmith:  Retaliation,  Line  93. 

Gem. 

Full  many  a  gem  of  purest  ray  serene 

The  dark  unfathom'd  caves  of  ocean  bear. 

789  Gray:  Elegy,  St.  14. 

Genius. 

Time,  place,  and  action,  may  with  pains  be  wrought. 
But  genius  must  be  born,  and  never  can  be  taught. 

790  Dryden  :  Epis.  to  Congreve  Line  59. 

Nor  mourn  the  unalterable  Days 
That  Genius  goes  and  Folly  Stays. 

791  Emersox:  In  Memoriam. 

Gentleman. 

We  are  gentlemen. 
That  neither  in  our  hearts,  nor  outward  eyes, 
Envy  the  great,  nor  do  the  low  despise. 

792  SiiAKS. :  Pericles,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  3. 

When  Adam  dolve,  and  Eve  span, 
Who  was  then  the  gentleman? 

793  Linen  used  by  John  Ball  in  Wat  Tyler's  Rebellion. 


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Gentleness. 

What  would  you  have?  Your  gentleness  shall  force 
More  than  your  force  move  us  to  gentleness. 

794  Shaks.  :  As  You  Like  It,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  7. 

Ghosts. 

A  vaunt!  and  quit  my  sight!    Let  the  earth  hide  thee  1 
Thy  bones  are  inarrowless,  thy  blood  is  cold; 
Thou  hast  no  speculation  in  those  eyes, 
"Which  thou  dost  glare  with ! 

795  Shaks.  :  Macbe/h,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 

Many  ghosts,  and  forms  of  fright, 
Have  started  from  their  graves  to-night; 
They  have  driven  sleep  from  mine  eyes  away. 

796  Longfellow  :  Christus,  Golden  Legend,  Pt.  iv. 

Some  say  no  evil  thing  that  walks  by  night, 
In  fog  or  fire,  by  lake  or  moorish  fen, 
Blue  meagre  hag,  or  stubborn  unlaid  ghost 
That  breaks  his  magic  chains  at  curfew  time, 
Xo  goblin,  or  swart  fairy  of  the  mine. 
Hath  hurtful  power  o'er  true  virginity. 

797  Milton:  Cow t/^^  Line  432. 

Gifts. 

She  prizes  not  such  trifles  as  these  are : 
The  gifts  she  looks  from  me,  are  pack'd  and  lock'd 
Up  in  my  heart;  which  I  have  given  already, 
But  not  deliver'd. 

798  Shaks.:   Wint.  Tale,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

Saints  themselves  will  sometimes  be. 
Of  gifts  that  cost  them  nothing,  free. 

799  Butler  :  Hudibras,  Pt.  i.,  Canto  i.,  Line  495. 


126    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Girdle. 

I  '11  put  a  girdle  round  about  the  earth 
In  forty  minutes. 

800  Shaks.  :  Mid.  N.  Dream,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1 

Gloaming. 

Late,  late  in  a  gloamin,  when  all  was  still, 
When  the  fringe  was  red  on  the  westlin  hill, 
The  wood  was  sere,  th*e  moon  i'  the  wane, 
The  reek  o'  the  cot  hung  over  the  plain  — 
Like  a  little  wee  cloud  in  the  world  its  lane; 
When  the  ingle  lowed  with  an  eiry  leme, 
Late,  late  in  the  gloamin  Kilmeny  came  hame! 

801  James  Hogg:  Kilmeny. 

Gloom. 

Where  glowing  embers  through  the  room 
Teach  light  to  counterfeit  a  gloom. 

802  Milton  :  11  Periseroso,  Line  79. 

Glory. 

Glory  is  like  a  circle  in  the  water, 

AVhich  never  ceaseth  to  enlarge  itself, 

Till,  by  broad  spreading,  it  disperse  to  nought. 

803  Shaks.  :  1  Henri/  VI.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

His  form  had  yet  not  lost    * 
All  her  original  brightness,  nor  appear'd 
Less  than  archangel  ruin'd,  and  th'  excess 
Of  glory  obscur'd. 

804  Milton:  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  i..  Line  59L 

Go  where  glory  waits  thee  1 

But  while  fame  elates  thee, 

Oh,  still  remember  me  ! 

805  Moore:  Go  Where  Glory  Waits  Thee. 


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The  sunshine  is  a  glorious  birth; 
But  yet  I  know,  where'er  I  go, 
That  there  hath  passed  away  a  glory  from  the  earth. 

806  Wordsworth  :  Intimations  of  Immortality^  St.  2. 

Ye  sons  of  France,  awake  to  glory ! 

Hark!  hark!  what  myriads  bid  you  rise! 
Your  children,  wives,  and  grandsires  hoary, 

Behold  their  tears  and  hear  their  cries ! 

807  Joseph  R.  De  L'Isle:  Marseilles  Hymn, 

Glow-worm. 

The  glow-worm  shows  the  matin  to  be  near, 
And  'gins  to  pale  his  uneffectual  fire. 

808  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  5. 

Gluttony. 

Swinish  gluttony 
Xe'er  looks  to  Heav'n  amidst  his  gorgeous  feast, 
But  with  besotted,  base  ingratitude 
Crams,  and  blasphemes  his  Feeder. 

809  Milton  :   Comws,  Line  776. 

God. 

'T  is  heaven  alone  that  is  given  aw^ay, 

'T  is  only  God  may  be  had  for  the  asking. 

James  Russell  Lowell  :  The  Vision  of  Sir 

810  Launfal. 

All  are  but  parts  of  one  stupendous  whole, 
"Whose  body  Xature  is,  and  God  the  soul. 

811  Pope:  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  i.,  Line  267. 

Thou  art,  O  God,  the  life  and  light 
Of  all  this  wondrous  world  we  see; 
Its  glow  by  day,  its  smile  by  night. 
Are  but  reflections  causrht  from  Thee: 


128    DICTIOXAKY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Where'er  we  turn,  Thy  glories  shine, 
And  all  things  fair  and  bright  are  Thine. 

812  Moore:   Thou  Art,  0  God. 

And  they  were  canopied  by  the  blue  sky, 
So  cloudless,  clear,  and  purely  beautiful 
That  God  alone  was  to  be  seen  in  heaven. 

813  BvKON :   7'Ae  Dream,  St.  4. 

The  conscious  water  saw  its  God  and  blushed. 

814  Richard  Crashaw:  Epigram. 

From  Thee,  great  God,  we  spring,  to  Thee  we  tend,  — 
Path,  motive,  guide,  original,  and  end. 

815  Dr.  Johnson:  Motto  to  the  Rambler,  No.  7. 

Gods. 

The  gods  are  just,  and  of  our  pleasant  vices 
Make  instruments  to  plague  us. 

816  Shaks.  :  King  Lear,  Act  v.,  Sc.  3. 

Heartily  know, 
AVhen  half-gods  go, 
The  gods  arrive. 

817  Emerson:  Give  All  to  Love. 

Gold. 

Gold;  worse  poison  to  men's  souls. 
Doing  more  murther  in  tliis  loathsome  world, 
Than  these  poor  compounds  that  thou  mayst  not  sell. 

818  Shaks.:  Rom.  and  Jid.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

O  cursed  lust  of  gold!  when  for  thy  sake 

The  fool  throws  up  his  interest  in  both  worlds; 

First  starved  in  this,  then  damn'd  in  that  to  come. 

819  Blair:  The  Grave,  Line  347. 


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So  dear  a  life  your  arms  enfold, 
Whose  crying  is  a  cry  for  gold. 

820  Tennyson:  The  Daisy,  St.  24. 

Goodness. 

May  he  live 
Longer  than  I  have  time  to  tell  his  years! 
Ever  belov'd,  and  loving,  may  his  rule  be! 
And,  when  old  Time  shall  lead  him  to  his  end, 
Goodness  and  he  fill  up  one  monument! 

821  Shaks.  :  Henrf/  VIIL,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Oh,  sir!  the  good  die  first, 
And  they  whose  hearts  are  dry  as  summer's  dust, 
Burn  to  the  socket. 

822  Wordsworth:  Excursion,  Bk.  i.,  Line  504. 

Be  good,  sweet  maid,  and  let  who  will  be  clever; 
Do  noble  things,  not  dream  them,  all  day  long: 
And  so  make  life,  death,  and  that  vast  forever 
One  grand,  sweet  song. 

823  Charlks  Kingsley:  A  Farewell. 

Good  Night. 

At  once,  good  night:  — 
Stand  not  upon  the  order  of  your  going, 
But  go  at  once. 

824  Shaks.:  Macbeth,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 

Good  night!   good  night!    parting  is  such  sweet 

sorrow, 
That  I  shall  say  good  night,  till  it  be  morrow. 

825  Shaks.  :  Rom.  and  Jul.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

To  all,  to  each,  a  fair  goorl  night. 

And  pleasing  dreams,  and  slumbers  light. 

826  Scott  :  Marmion,  Canto  vi.,  L'Envoy. 


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Government. 

'T  is  government  that  makes  them  seem  divine. 

827  Shaks.  :  3  Henry  VI.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  4. 

Each  petty  hand 
Can  steer  a  ship  becahi)'d;  but  he  that  will 
Govern  and  carry  her  to  her  ends,  must  know 
His  tides,  his  currents,  liow  to  shift  his  sails; 
What  she  will  bear  in  foul,  what  in  fair  weathers; 
Where  her  springs  are,  her  leaks,  and  Jiovv  to  stop  'em; 
What  strands,  what  shelves,  what  rocks  do  threaten 
her. 

828  Ben  Jonson  :   Catiline,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

For  forms  of  government  let  fools  contest, 
Whate'er  is  best  administer'd  is  best. 

829  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  iii.,  Line  303. 

Grace. 

When  once  our  grace  we  have  forgot. 
Nothing  goes  right. 

830  Shaks.  :  M.  for  M.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  4. 

From  vulgar  bounds  with  brave  disorder  part. 
And  snatch  a  grace  beyond  the  reach  of  art. 

831  Pope  :  E.  on  Criticism,  Pt.  i.,  Line  152. 

Grandeur. 

Nor  grandeur  hear  with  a  disdainful  smile 
The  short  and  simple  annals  of  the  poor. 

832  Gray  :  Elegy,  St.  8. 

Gratitude. 

The  still  small  voice  of  gratitude. 

833  Gray  :  Ode  for  Music,  Chorus,  V.,  Line  8. 


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I  *ve  heard  of  hearts  unkind,  kind  deeds 
With  coldness  still  returning; 
Alas!  the  gratitude  of  men 
Hath  oftener  left  nie  mourning. 

834  Wordsworth  :   Siinon  Lee. 

Grave. 

One  destin'd  period  men  in  common  have, 
The  great,  the  base,  the  coward,  and  the  brave, 
All  food  alike  for  worms,  companions  in  the  grave. 

835  Lansdowne  :    On  Death. 


The  grave,  dread  thing  ! 
Men  shiver  when  thou  'rt  named  :  Nature  appall'd. 
Shakes  off  her  wonted  firnmess. 

836  Blair:    The  Grace,  hmed. 

Mine  be  the  breezy  hill  that  skirts  the  down, 

Where  a  green  grassy  turf  is  all  I  crave, 

With  here  and  there  a  violet  bestrewn. 

Fast  by  a  brook  or  fountain's  murmuring  wave ; 

And  many  an  evening  sun  shine  sweetly  on  my  grave ! 

837  Beattie  :    The  Minstrel  Bk.  ii.,  St.  17. 


Greatness. 

I  have  touched  the  highest  point  of  all  my  great- 
ness. 

838  Shaks.  :  Henry  VIII.,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

Rightly  to  be  great, 
Is,  not  to  stir  without  great  argument, 
But  greatly  to  find  quarrel  in  a  straw. 
When  honor  's  at  the  stake. 

839  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  4. 


132    DICTIOXARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Great  hearts  have  largest  room  to  bless  the  small; 
Strong  natures  give  the  weaker  home  and  rest. 

840  Lucy  Larcom  :  Sonnet,  The  Presence. 

Greece. 

Fair  Greece!  sad  relic  of  departed  worth! 
Immortal,  though  no  more;  though  fallen,  great! 

841  Byuon:   CA.  //aroW,  Canto  ii.,  St.  73. 

Such  is  the  aspect  of  this  shore; 

'T  is  Greece,  but  living  Greece  no  more! 

So  coldly  sweet,  so  deadly  fair, 

We  start,  for  soul  is  wanting  there. 

842  Byron  :   Giaour,  Line  90. 

The  isles  of  Greece,  the  isles  of  Greece ! 
AVhere  burning  Sappho  loved  and  sung. 

843  Byron  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  iii.,  St.  86.  1. 

Greeks. 

When  Greeks  joined  Greeks,  then  was  the  tug  of  war. 

844  Nathaniel  Lee  :  Alex. the  Great,  Acti\'.,Sc.2. 

Grief. 

My  grief  lies  onward  and  my  joy  behind. 

845  Shaks.  :  Sonnet  50. 

What 's  gone,  and  what's  past  help, 
Should  be  past  grief. 

846  SiiAKS. :    Wint.  Tale,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

What  need  a  man  forestall  his  date  of  grief. 
And  run  to  meet  what  he  would  most  avoid? 

847  Milton  :  Comus,  Line  362. 


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0  brothers!  let  us  leave  the  shame  and  sin 
Of  taking  vainly,  in  a  plaintive  mood, 
The  holy  name  of  Grief  !  —  holy  herein, 
That,  by  the  grief  of  One,  came  all  our  good. 

848  Mrs.  Browning  :  Sonnets,  Exaggeration. 

In  all  the  silent  manliness  of  grief. 

849  Goldsmith:  Des.  I'l/lage,  Line  384. 

Ground. 

Where'er  we  tread,  't  is  haunted,  holy  ground. 

850  Byron  :   Ck.  Harold,  Canto  ii.,  St.  88. 

Groves. 

The  groves  were  God's  first  temples. 

851  William  Cullen  Bryant  :  .1  Forest  Hymn. 

In  such  green  palaces  the  first  kings  reign'd, 
Slept  in  their  shades,  and  angels  entertain'd; 
With  such  old  counsellors  they  did  advise, 
And  by  frequenting  sacred  groves  grew  wise. 

852  Waller  :   On  St.  James's  Park. 

Grudge. 

If  I  can  catch  him  once  upon  the  hip, 

1  will  feed  fat  the  ancient  grudge  I  bear  him. 

853  Shaks.  :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

Guests. 

Unbidden  guests 
Are  often  welcomest  when  they  are  gone. 

854  Shaks.  :  1  Henry  VI.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

For  I  who  hold  sage  Homer's  rule  the  best, 
Welcome  the  coming,  speed  the  going  guest. 

855  Pope  :  Satire  ii.,  Line  159. 


134    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Guilt. 

So  full  of  artless  jealousy  is  guilt, 
It  spills  itself  in  fearing  to  be  spilt. 

856  SiiAKS. :  Hamlet,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  5. 

How  guilt,  once  harbor'd  in  the  conscious  breast, 
Intimidates  the  brave,  degrades  the  great! 

857  Dk.  Johnson:  Irene,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  8. 


H. 

Habit. 

Ill  habits  gather  by  unseen  degrees. 

As  brooks  make  rivers,  rivers  run  to  seas. 

Dryden:  OciiVs  Metamorphoses,  Bk.  xv., 

858  Line  155. 

Small  habits  well  pursued  betimes 
May  reach  the  dignity  of  crimes. 

859  Hannah  More:  Floi-is,  Pt.  i.,  Line  85. 

Hair. 

She  knows  her  man,  and  when  you  rant  and  swear. 
Can  draw  you  to  her  with  a  single  hair. 

860  Dryden:  From  Persius,  Satire  v.,  Line  246. 

Golden  hair,  like  sunlight  streaming 
On  the  marble  of  her  shoulder. 

861  J.  G.  Saxe:   The  Lovers  Vision,  St.  3. 

When  you  see  fair  hair 
Be  pitiful. 

862  George  Eliot  :  Spanish  Gypsy,  Bk.  4. 


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Loose  his  beard,  and  hoary  hair 

Stream'd  like  a  meteor  to  the  troubled  air. 

863  Gray:   The  Bard,  Ft.  l,  St.  2. 

Halter. 

No  man  e'er  felt  the  halter  draw, 
AVith  good  opinion  of  the  law. 

John  Trumbull:  McFingal,  Canto  iii., 

864  Line  489. 

Hand. 

Let  my  hand  — 
This  hand,  lie  in  your  own  —  my  own  true  friend  ! 
Hand  in  hand  with  you. 

865  Robert  Browning  :  Paracelsus,  Sc.  5. 

'T  was  a  hand 
White,  delicate,  dimpled,  warm,  languid,  and  bland. 
The  hand  of  a  woman  is  often,  in  youth, 
Somewhat  rough,  somewhat  red,  somewhat  grace- 
less in  truth  ; 
Does  its  beauty  refine,  as  its  pulses  grow  calm. 
Or  as  Sorrow  has  crossed  the  life-line  in  the  palm  ? 
Owen  Meredith  :  Lucile,  Pt.  i..  Canto  lii., 

866  St.  13. 

Happiness. 

And  there  is  even  a  happiness 
That  makes  the  heart  afraid. 

867  Hood  :   Ode  to  Melancholy. 

Happiness  depends,  as  Nature  shows, 
Less  on  exterior  things  than  most  suppose. 

868  Cowper:   Table  Talk,  Line  2AQ. 


136    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

O  happiness!  our  being's  end  and  aim! 

Good,  pleasure,  ease,  content!  vvhate'er  thy  name*. 

That  sometliing  still  which  prompts  the  eternal 

sigh. 
For  which  we  bear  to  live,  or  dare  to  die. 

869  Pope:  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  iv.,  Line  1. 

Harmony. 

Soft  stillness  and  the  night 
Become  the  touches  of  sweet  harmony. 

870  Shaks.  :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

From  harmony,  from  heavenly  harmony, 

This  universal  frame  began  : 

From  harmony  to  harmony 
Through  all  the  compass  of  the  notes  it  ran, 
The  diapason  closing  full  in  Man. 

87 1  Dr  YDEN :  A  Song  for  St.  Cecilia's  Day,  Line  1 L 

Harp. 

The  harp  that  once  through  Tara's  halls 

The  soul  of  music  shed, 
Now  hangs  as  mute  on  Tara's  w^alls 

As  if  that  soul  were  fled. 

Moore  :   The  Harp  That  Once  Through  Tara's 

872  Halls. 

Haste. 

Farewell;  and  let  your  haste  commend  your  duty. 

873  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

Running  together  all  about. 
The  servants  put  each  other  out. 
Till  the  grave  master  had  decreed. 
The  more  haste,  ever  the  worst  speed. 

874  Churchill:  67^oi•^  Bk.  iv..  Line  1159. 


DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.  137 

Hat. 

So  Britain's  monarch  once  uncovered  sat, 

While  Bradshaw  bullied  in  a  broad-brimmed  hat. 

875  James  Bramstox:  Man  of  Taste. 

Hatred. 

To  vow,  and  swear,  and  siiperpraise  my  parts, 
"When,  I  am  sure,  you  hate  me  with  your  hearts. 

876  Shaks.  :  Mid.  N.  Dream,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

Never  can  true  reconcilement  grow 
Where  wounds  of  deadly  hate  have  pierc'd  so  deep. 

877  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iv..  Line  98. 

There  was  a  laughing  devil  in  his  sneer, 
That  rais'd  emotions  both  of  rage  and  fear; 
And  where  his  frown  of  hatred  darkly  fell, 
Hope  withering  fled,  and  Mercy  sigh'd  farewell ! 

878  Byron  :   Corsair,  Canto  i.,  St.  9. 


He  who  surpasses  or  subdues  mankind 
Must  look  down  on  the  hate  of  those  below. 

879  Byron  :  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iii.,  St.  45. 


Hawthorn. 

And  every  shepherd  tells  his  tale 
Under  the  hawthorn  in  the  dale. 

880  Milton:  L'.4 ^/e^rro,  Line  67. 

Head. 

Oh  good  gray  head  which  all  men  knew ! 

Tennyson:  Ode  on  the  Death  of  the  Duke  of 

881  '  Wellington,  St.  4. 


138    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

The  tall,  the  wise,  the  reverend  head 
Must  lie  as  low  as  ours. 

Watts  :  Hymns  and  Spiritual  Songs,  Bk.  ii., 

882  Hymn  63. 

Health. 

Nor  love,  nor  honor,  wealth,  nor  power, 
Can  give  tlie  heart  a  cheerful  hour 
When  health  is  lost.     Be  timely  wise; 
With  health  all  taste  of  pleasure  flies. 

883  Gay  :  FaUes,  Tt.  i..  Fable  31. 

Better  to  hunt  in  fields  for  health  unbought 
Than  fee  the  doctor  for  a  nauseous  di-aught. 
Dryden  :   Epis.  to  John  Dryden  of  Chesterton, 

884  '  Line  92. 

Heart. 

A  merry  heart  goes  all  the  day, 
Your  sad  tires  in  a  mile-a. 

885  Shaks.  :   Wint.  Tale,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  2. 

With  every  pleasing,  every  prudent  part. 

Say,  what  can  Chloe  want?     She  wants  a  heart. 

886  Pope  :  Moral  Essays,  Epis.  ii.,  Line  159. 

Or  from  Browning  some  "Pomegranate,"  which 

if  cut  deep  down  the  middle, 
Shows  a  heart  within  blood-tinctured,  of  a  veined 

humanity. 

Mrs.  Browning  :  Lady  Geraldine's  Court- 

887  ship,  xli. 

The  heart  bowed  down  by  weight  of  woe 
To  weakest  hope  will  cling. 

888  Alfred  Bunn  :  Song, 


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Here  the  heart 
May  give  a  useful  lesson  to  the  head. 
And  Learnmg  wiser  grow  without  his  books. 

889  CowPER  :   Task^  Bk.  vi.,  Line  85. 

But  on  and  up,  where  Nature's  heart 
Beats  strong  amid  the  hills. 
Richard  M.  Milnes  :  I'ragedy  of  the  Lac  de 

890  Gauhe,  St.  2. 

Heaven. 

Heaven  is  above  all  yet;  there  sits  a  Judge 

That  no  king  can  corrupt. 

8:J1  Shaks.  :  Henry  VIIL,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

Heaven 
Is  as  the  Book  of  God  before  thee  set, 
Wherein  to  read  his  wondrous  works. 

892  MiLTOx :  Pa7\  Lost,  Bk.  viii.,  Line  66. 

Some  feelings  are  to  mortals  given 
With  less  of  earth  in  them  than  heaven. 

893  Scott  :  Lady  of  the  Lake,  Canto  ii.,  St.  22. 

HeU. 

'T  is  now  the  very  witching  time  of  night, 
When  churchyards  yawn  and  hell  itself  breathes 

out 
Contagion  to  this  world. 

894  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

A  dungeon  horrible,  on  all  sides  round, 

As  one  great  furnace  flamed ;  yet  from  those  flames 
No  light;  but  rather  darkness  visible 
Serv'd  only  to  discover  sights  of  woe, 
Regions  of  sorrow,  doleful  shades,  where  peace 
And  rest  can  never  dwell,  hope  never  comes 
That  comes  to  all,  but  torture  without  end. 

895  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  i.,  Line  6L 


140    DICTIUNAIIY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Hell 
Grew  darker  at  their  frown. 

896  Milton:  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  719. 

To  rest,  the  cusliion  and  soft  dean  invite, 
"Who  never  mentions  hell  to  ears  polite. 

897  Pope  :  Moral  Essays,  Epis.  iv.,  Line  149. 

In  hope  to  merit  heaven  by  making  earth  a  hell. 

898  Byrox  :   Ch.  Harold,  Canto  i.,  St.  20. 

Hell  is  a  city  much  like  London  — 
A  populous  and  a  smoky  city; 
There  are  all  sorts  of  people  undone, 
And  there  is  little  or  no  fun  done; 
Small  justice  shown,  and  still  less  pity. 

899  Shelley  :  Peter  Bell  the  Third,  Ft.  iii. 

Heritage. 

I,  the  heir  of  all  the  ages,  in  the  foremost  files  of 
time. 

900  Tennyson  :  LocJcsley  Hall,  Line  178. 

Creation's  heir,  the  world,  the  world  is  mine ! 

901  Goldsmith  :   Traveller,  Line  50. 

Heroes. 

Heroes  are  much  the  same,  the  point's  agreed, 
From  Macedonia's  madman  to  the  Swede. 

902  Pope:  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  iv.,  Line  219. 

Whoe'er  excels  in  what  we  prize, 
Appears  a  hero  in  our  eyes. 

903  Swift  :  Cadenus  and  Vanessa,  Line  729. 

To  the  hero,  when  his  sword 
Has  won  the  battle  for  the  free, 


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Death's  voice  sounds  like  a  prophet's  word; 

And  in  its  hollow  tones  are  heard 

The  thanks  of  millions  yet  to  be  ! 

901  Halleck  :  Marco  Bozzaris. 

Heroes  as  great  have  died,  and  yet  shall  fall. 

905  Pope  :  Iliad,  Bk.  xv.,  Line  157. 

Hills. 

The  hills, 
Rock-ribbed,  and  ancient  as  the  sun. 

906  William  Cullen  Bryant  :   Thanatopsis. 

I  have  looked  on  the  hills  of  the  stormy  Xorth, 
And  the  larch  has  hung  his  tassels  forth. 

907  Hemans  :   The  Voice  of  Spring. 

History. 

History,  with  all  her  volumes  vast, 
Hath  but  one  page. 

908  Byron  :   Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iv.,  St.  108. 

Holiday. 

If  all  the  year  were  playing  holidays, 

To  sport  would  be  as  tedious  as  to  work; 

But  when  they  seldom  come,  they  wished-for  come, 

And  nothing  pleaseth  but  rare  accidents. 

909  Shaks.  :  1  Henry  IV.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

There  were  his  young  barbarians  all  at  play; 
There  was  their  Dacian  mother  :  he,  their  sire, 
Butcher'd  to  make  a  Roman  holiday ! 

910  Byron  :  Ck.  Harold,  Canto  iv.,  St.  141. 

Holiness. 

Whoso  lives  the  holiest  life 
Is  fittest  far  to  die. 

911  Margaret  J.  Preston:  Ready. 


142    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Homage. 

When  I  am  dead,  no  pageant  train 
Shall  waste  their  sorrows  at  my  bier, 

Nor  worthless  pomp  of  homage  vain 
Stain  it  with  hypocritic  tear. 

912  Edward  Everett:   A laric  (he  Visigoth. 

Home. 

Home  is  the  resort 
Of  love,  of  joy,  of  peace  and  plenty,  where. 
Supporting  and  supported,  polish'd  friends 
And  dear  relations  mingle  into  bliss. 

913  Thomson:  Seasons,  Autumn,  Line  65. 

This  fond  attachment  to  the  well-known  place 
Whence  first  we  started  into  life's  long  race, 
Maintains  its  hold  with  such  unfailing  sway. 
We  feel  it  e'en  in  age,  and  at  our  latest  day. 

914  CowPER  :    Tirocinium,  Line  314, 


This  be  the  verse  you  grave  for  me  : 
Here  he  lies  where  he  longed  to  be ; 
Home  is  the  sailor,  home  from  sea. 
And  the  hunter  home  from  the  hill. 


915  Robert  Louis  Stevenson  :  Requi 


lem. 


'Mid  pleasures  and  palaces  though  we  may  roam. 
Be  it  ever  so  humble,  there  's  no  place  like  home. 

916  J.  Howard  Payne:  Home,  Sweet  Home. 

Type  of  the  wise  who  soar  but  never  roam, 
True  to  the  kindred  points  of  heaven  and  home. 

917  Wordsworth  :   To  a  Skylark. 


DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.   143 

Homer. 

Read  Homer  once,  and  you  can  read  no  more, 

For  all  books  else  appear  so  mean,  so  poor; 
Verse  may  seem  prose;  but  still  persist  to  read, 
And  Homer  will  be  all  the  books  you  need. 

Sheffield,  Duke  of  Buckixghamshire  : 

918  Essay  on  Poetry, 

Oft  of  one  wide  expanse  had  I  been  told 
That  deep-brow'd  Homer  ruled  as  his  demesne, 
Yet  did  I  never  breathe  its  pure  serene 

Till  I  heard  Chapman  speak  out  loud  and  bold. 
Keats  :   On  Jirst  looking  into  Chapman^s 

919  Homer. 

Seven  cities  w^arred  for  Homer  being  dead; 
Who  living  had  no  roofe  to  shrowd  his  head. 

Thomas  Heywood  :  Hierarckie  of  the  Blessed 

920  A  ngells. 

Honesty. 

An  honest  man  he  is,  and  hates  the  slime 
That  sticks  on  filthy  deeds. 

921  Shaks.  :  Othello,  Act  v.,  Sc.  2. 

A  wit  's  a  feather,  and  a  chief  a  rod; 

An  honest  man  's  the  noblest  w^ork  of  God. 

922  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  iv.,  Line  247. 

Honor. 

Too  much  honor  : 
O,  't  is  a  burthen,  ...  't  is  a  burthen. 
Too  heavy  for  a  man  that  liopes  for  heaven. 

923  Shaks.  :  Henry  VIIL,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 


144    DICTIONARY   OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Honor  travels  in  a  strait  so  narrow, 

Where  one  but  goes  abreast :  keep  then  the  path. 

924  Shaks.  :   Troil.  and  Cress.,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  3. 

Honor  's  a  fine  imaginary  notion, 

That  draws  in  raw  and  unexperienced  men 

To  real  mischiefs,  while  they  hunt  a  shadow. 

925  Addison  :   Cato,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  5. 

Honor  and  shame  from  no  condition  rise; 
Act  well  your  part,  there  all  the  honor  lies. 

926  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  iv..  Line  193. 

His  honor  rooted  in  dishonor  stood. 

And  faith  unfaithful  kept  him  falsely  true. 

927  Tennyson  :  Idyls,  Elaine,  Line  884. 

There  Honor  comes,  a  pilgrim  gray. 
To  bless  the  turf  that  wraps  their  clay. 

928  William  Collins:   Ode  in  \7^G. 

Hood. 

A  page  of  Hood  may  do  a  fellow  good 
After  a  scolding  from  Carlyle  or  Ruskin. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes: 

929  How  Not  to  Settle  Tt. 

Hope. 

True  hope  is  swift,  and  flies  with  swallows'  wings ; 
Kings  it  makes  gods,  and  meaner  creatures  kings. 

930  Shaks.  :  Richard  III.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  2. 

So  farewell  hope,  and,  with  hope,  farewell  fear. 
Farewell  remorse !     All  good  to  me  is  lost. 

931  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  108. 


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Hope  springs  eternal  in  the  human  breast; 
Man  never  is,  but  always  to  be  blest. 

932  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  i.,  Line  95. 

Auspicious  hope  !  in  thy  sweet  garden  grow 
Wreaths  for  each  toil,  a  charm  for  every  woe. 

933  Campbell:  PL  of  Hope,  Pt.  i.,  Line  45. 

Thus  heavenly  hope  is  all  serene, 
But  earthly  hope,  how  bright  soe'er, 

Still  fluctuates  o'er  this  changing  scene. 
As  false  and  fleeting  as  't  is  fair. 

Heber  :   On  Heavenly  Hope  and  Earthly 

934  Hope. 

Where  peace 
And  rest  can  never  dwell,  hope  never  comes 
That  comes  to  all. 

935  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  i..  Line  65. 

"  All  hope  abandon,  ye  who  enter  in  !  " 
These  words  in  sombre  color  I  beheld 
Written  upon  the  summit  of  a  gate. 

Dante  :  Inferno,  Longfellow's  Trans., 

936  Canto  iii.,  Line  9. 

Horn. 

Have  sight  of  Proteus  rising  from  the  sea, 
Or  hear  old  Triton  blow  his  wreathed  horn. 

Wordsworth  :  Miscellaneous  Sonnets, 

937  Pt.  i.,  xxxiii. 

Horror. 

My  fell  of  hair 
Would  at  a  dismal  treatise  rouse  and  stir 
As  life  were  in  't :  I  have  supp'd  full  with  horrors, 

938  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  v.,  Sc.  5. 


146    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

On  hoiToi's  liead  horrors  accmimlate. 

930  Shaks.  :  Oihello,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  3. 

Horse. 

A  horse  !  a  horse!  my  kingdom  for  a  horse  ! 

940  Shaks.  :  Richard  III.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  4. 

Hospitality. 

iVly  master  is  of  churlish  disposition, 
And  little  recks  to  find  the  way  to  heaven 
By  doing  deeds  of  hospitality. 

941  Shaks.  :  As  You  Like  It,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  4. 

Every  house  was  an  inn,  where  all  were  welcomed 
and  feasted. 

Longfellow:  Evangeline,  Pt.  I.,  iv., 

942  Line  15. 

Host. 

The  leader,  mingling  with  the  vulgar  host, 
Is  in  the  common  mass  of  matter  lost. 

943  Pope  :  Odijsseij,  Bk.  iv..  Line  397. 

Hour. 

Too  busy  with  the  crowded  hour  to  fear  to  live  or 
die. 

944  Emerson  :  Quatrains,  Nature. 

Catch,  then,  oh  catch  the  transient  hour; 

Improve  eacli  moment  as  it  flies! 
Life  's  a  short  summer,  man  a  flower; 

He  dies  —  alas!  how  soon  he  dies! 

945  Dr.  Johnson:   Winter,  An  Ode. 

House. 

For  there  's  nae  luck  about  the  house, 
There  's  nae  luck  at  a' ; 


DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.    147 

There  's  little  pleasure  in  the  house 
When  our  gudeman  's  awa'. 

946  William  J.  Mickle  :  Mariner's  Wife. 

Humanity. 

But  hearing  oftentimes    ' 
The  still,  sad  music  of  humanity. 

Wordsworth  :  Lines  composed  a  few  miles 

947  above  Tinlern  Abbey. 

O  suffering,  sad  humanity  ! 
O  ye  afflicted  ones,  who  lie 
Steeped  to  the  lips  in  misery, 
Longing,  yet  afraid  to  die, 
Patient,  though  sorely  tried  ! 

948  Longfellow:  Goblet  of  Life. 

Humility. 

Give  me  the  lowest  place  :  or  if  for  me 

That  lowest  place  too  high,  make  one  more  low 

Where  I  may  sit  and  see 

My  God  and  love  Thee  so. 

949  Christina  G.  Rossetti  :   The  Lowest  Place. 

Hunger. 

The  hungry  judges  soon  the  sentence  sign, 
And  wretches  hang  that  jurymen  may  dine. 

950  Pope  :  R.  of  the  Lock,  Canto  iii..  Line  2L 

Cruel  as  death,  and  hungry  as  the  grave. 

951  Thomson  :  Seasons,  Winter,  Line  393. 

Hunting. 

The  healthy  huntsman,  with  a  cheerful  horn, 
Summons  the  dogs  and  greets  the  dappled  Morn. 
The  jocund  thunder  wakes  the  enliven'd  hounds, 
They  rouse  from    sleep,  and    answer    sounds    for 
sounds. 

952  Gay  :  Rural  Sports,  Canto  ii.,  Line  96. 


148    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Husband. 

As  the  husband  is,  the  wife  is;    thou  art  mated 

witli  a  clown, 
And  the  grossness  of  his  nature  will  have  weight 

to  drag  thee  down. 

953  Tennyson  :  Locksley  Hall,  St.  24. 

Ah,  gentle  dames !  it  gars  me  greet 
To  think  how  monie  counsels  sweet, 
How  monie  lengthened  sage  advices, 
The  husband  frae  the  wife  despises. 

954  Burns  :  Tam  O'Shanier. 

Hypocrisy. 

This  outward-sainted  deputy,  — 
Whose  settled  visage  and  deliberate  word 
Kips  youth  i'  the  head,  and  follies  doth  emmew 
As  falcon  doth  the  fowl,  — is  yet  a  devil. 

955  Shaks.  :  M.for  M.,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

Neither  man  nor  angel  can  discern 

Hypocrisy,  the  only  evil  that  walks 

Invisible,  except  to  God  alone. 

By  His  permissive  will,  through  Heaven  and  Earth. 

956  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iii..  Line  682. 

The  hypocrite  had  left  his  mask,  and  stood 
In  naked  ugliness.     He  was  a  man 
Who  stole  the  livery  of  the  court  of  heaven 
To  serve  the  devil  in. 

957  PoLLOK  :  Course  of  Time,  Pt.  viii.,  Line  615. 


DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.    149 
I. 

Ice. 

Yon  foaming  flood  seems  motionless  as  ice ; 
Its  dizzy  turbulence  eludes  the  eye, 
Frozen  by  distance. 

958  Wordsworth:  Address  to  Kilchum  Castle. 

Idea. 

Delightful  task  !  to  rear  the  tender  thought, 
To  teach  the  young  idea  how  to  shoot. 

959  Thomson  :   Seasons,  Spring,  Line  1149. 

Idleness. 

Absence  of  occupation  is  not  rest, 

A  mind  quite  vacant  is  a  mind  distress'd. 

960  CowPER  :  Retirement,  Line  623. 

Ignorance. 

Ignorance  is  the  curse  of  God, 
Knowledge  the  wing  wherewith  we  fly  to  heaven. 

961  Shaks.  :  2  Henry  VI.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  7. 

From  ignorance  our  comfort  flows, 
The  only  wretched  are  the  wise. 

962  Prior  :   To  lion.  C.  Montague. 

Where  ignorance  is  bliss 
'T  is  folly  to  be  wise. 

963  Gray  :  Ode  on  Eton  College. 


lUs. 


Kings  may  be  blest,  but  Tam  was  glorious. 

O'er  a'  the  ills  o'  life  victorious. 

964  Burns  :   Tam  O'Shanter. 


150    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

There  mark  what  ills  the  scholar's  life  assail,  — 
Toil,  envy,  want,  the  patron,  and  the  jail. 

Du.  Johnson  :  Van.  of  Human  Wishes, 
005  Line  159. 

Imagination. 

The  lunatic,  the  lover,  and  the  poet, 

Are  of  imagination  all  compact. 

9G6  Shaks.  :  Mid.  N.  Dream,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Imagination  is  the  air  of  mind. 

967  Bailey  :  Festus,  Sc.  Another  and  a  Better  World. 

But  thou  that  didst  appear  so  fair 

To  fond  imagination. 
Dost  rival  in  the  light  of  day 

Her  delicate  creation. 

968  Wordsworth  :   Yarrow  Visited. 

Immortality. 

It  must  be  so,  Plato,  thou  reasonest  well !  — 
P^lse  whence  this  pleasing  hope,  this  fond  desire, 
This  longing  after  immortality? 

969  Addison  :  Cato,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Where  music  dwells 
Lingering  and  wandering  on  as  loth  to  die. 
Like  thouglits  whose  very  sweetness  yieldeth  proof 
That  they  were  born  for  immortality. 

Wordsworth  :  Ecclesiastical  Sonnets, 

970  Pt.  iii.,  xliii. 

Impossibility. 

And  what  \s  impossible  can't  be. 
And  never,  never  comes  to  pass. 

971  Colman,  Jr.:  Maid  of  the  Moor. 


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Impudence. 

For  he  that  has  but  impudence, 
To  all  things  has  a  fair  pretence; 
And,  put  among  his  wants  but  shame, 
To  all  the  world  may  lay  his  claim. 

972  BcTLER  :  Misc.  Thoughts,  Line  17. 

Inconstancy. 

Sigh  no  more,  ladies,  sigh  no  more; 
^len  were  deceivers  ever; 
One  foot  in  sea,  and  one  on  shore; 
To  one  thing  constant  never. 

973  Shaks.  :  Much  Ado,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  3,  Song. 

There  are  three  things  a  wise  man  will  not  trust  — 
The  wind,  the  sunshine  of  an  April  day. 
And  woman's  plighted  faith. 

SouTHEY  :  Madoc,  Ft.  ii.,  Caradoc  and  Senena, 

974  Line  5L 

Independence. 

Thy  spirit,  Independence,  let  me  share; 
Lord  of  the  lion-heart  and  eagle-eye, 
Thy  steps  I  follow  with  my  bosom  bare, 
.  Nor  heed  the  storm  that  howls  along  the  sky. 

975  Smollett  :  Ode  to  Independence. 

Let  independence  be  our  boast, 
Ever  mindful  what  it  cost; 
Ever  grateful  for  the  prize, 
Let  its  altar  reach  the  skies! 

976  Joseph  Hopkixson  :  Hail,  Columbia ! 

Indifference. 

What's  Hecuba  to  him,  or  he  to  Hecuba. 

977  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 


152    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Let  ev\y  man  enjoy  his  whim; 
What 's  he  to  me,  or  1  to  him? 
078  Churchill:  Ghost,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  215. 

Infancy. 

Ere  sin  could  bliglit,  or  sorrow  fade, 
Death  came  with  friendly  care; 
The  opening  bud  to  heav'n  convey'd. 
And  bade  it  blossom  there. 

979  Coleridge:  Epitaph  on  an  Infant. 

Infidelity. 

If  man  loses  all,  when  life  is  lost. 
He  lives  a  coward,  or  a  fool  expires. 
A  daring  infidel  (and  such  there  are, 
Frojn  pride,  example,  lucre,  rage,  revenge. 
Or  pure  heroical  defect  of  thought,) 
Of  all  earth's  madmen,  most  deserves  a  chain. 

980  Young  :  Night  Thoughts,  Night  vii.,  Line  199. 

Influence. 

No  life 
Can  be  pure  in  its  purpose  and  strong  in  its  strife. 
And  all  life  not  be  purer  and  stronger  thereby. 
Owen  Meredith  :  Lucile,  Pt.  ii.,  Canto  vi., 

981  St.  40. 

Ladies,  whose  bright  eyes 
Rain  influence,  and  judge  the  prize. 

982  Milton:  i'^Z%ro,  Line  121. 

Ingratitude. 

I  hate  ingratitude  more  in  a  man 
Than  lying,  vainness,  babbling,  drunkenness, 
Or  any  taint  of  vice,  whose  strong  corruption 
Inhabits  our  frail  blood. 

983  Shaks.  :   Tw.  Night,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 


DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.   153 

Ingratitude  !  thou  marble-hearted  fiend, 

More  hideous,  when  thou  show'st  thee  in  a  child, 

Than  the  sea-monster ! 

984  Shaks.  :  King  Lear,  Act  i.,  Sc.  4. 

How  sharper  than  a  serpent's  tooth  it  is 
To  have  a  thankless  child. 

985  Shaks.:  King  Lear,  Act  i.,  Sc.  4. 

Inhumanity. 

Man's  inhumanity  to  man 
Makes  countless  thousands  mourn. 

986  Burns  :  Man  teas  Made  to  Mourn. 

Inn. 

Whoe'er  has  travelled  life's  dull  round, 
Where'er  his  stages  may  have  been, 
May  sigh  to  think  he  still  has  found. 
The  warmest  welcome  at  an  inn. 

Shenstone:  Lines  on  Window  of  Inn  at 

987  Henley. 

Innocence. 

The  silence  often  of  pure  innocence 
.    Persuades,  when  speaking  fails. 

988  Shaks.:   Wint.  Tale,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  3. 

An  age  that  melts  in  unperceiv'd  decay, 
And  glides  in  modest  innocence  away. 

989  Dr.  Johnson  :  Van.  of  Human  Wishes,  Line  293. 

Instinct. 

Then  vainly  the  philosopher  avers 
That  reason  guides  our  deeds,  and  instinct  theirs. 
How  can  we  justly  different  causes  frame. 
When  the  effects  entirely  are  the  same? 


154    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Instinct  and  reason  how  can  we  divide? 
'T  is  the  fool's  ignorance,  and  the  pedant's  pride. 
Prior:  Solomon  on  the  V.  of  the  World,  Bk.  i., 

990  Line  231. 

Invention. 

Th'  invention  all  admir'd,  and  each  how  he 
To  be  th'  inventor  miss'd;  so  easy  it  seeni'd, 
Once  found,  which  yet  unfound  most  would  have 

thought 
Impossible ! 

991  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  vi.,  Line  498. 

Iron. 

Ay  me !  what  perils  do  environ 

The  man  that  meddles  with  cold  iron ! 

992  Butler  :  Iludibras,  Canto  iii..  Line  I. 

Isle,  Isles. 

Some  unsuspected  isle  in  far-off  seas. 

993  Robert  Browning  :  Pippa  Passes,  Pt.  ii. 

The  sprinkled  isles, 
Lily  on  lily,  that  o'erlace  the  sea. 
991  Robert  Browning  :  Clean. 

Italy. 

Italia !  O  Italia  !  thou  who  hast 

The  fatal  gift  of  beauty,  which  became 

A  funeral  dower  of  present  woes  and  past. 

On  thy  sweet  brow  is  sorrow  plough'd  by  shame, 

And  annals  graved  in  characters  of  flame. 

995  Byron  :  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iv.,  St.  42. 

Italy,  my  Italy ! 

Queen  Mary's  saying  serves  for  me 


DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.    155 

(When  fortune's  malice 

Lost  her  Calais)  : 
"  Open  my  heart,  and  you  will  see 
Graved  inside  of  it  *  Italy.'  " 

996  Robert  Browxing  :  De  Gustibus,  ii. 

Ivy. 

(Jh,  a  dainty  plant  is  the  ivy  green, 

That  creepeth  o'er  ruins  old! 
Of  right  choice  food  are  his  meals,  I  ween, 

In  his  cell  so  lone  and  cold. 
Creeping  where  no  life  is  seen, 
A  rare  old  plant  is  the  ivy  green. 

997  Dickens:  Pickwick  Papers,  Ch.  Q. 


January. 

Then  came  old  January,  wrapped  well 

In  many  Meeds  to  keep  the  cold  away ; 
Yet  did  he  quake  and  quiver  like  to  quell, 
And  blow  his  nails  to  warm  them  if  he  may. 
Spenser  :  Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  vii.,  Canto  vii., 
.   998  St.  42. 

Jealousy. 

O  beware,  my  lord,  of  jealousy ; 
It  is  the  green-eyed  nTonster,  which  doth  mock 
The  meat  it  feeds  on. 

999  Shaks.  :  Othello,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  3. 

No  true  love  there  can  be  without 
Its  dread  penalty  —  jealousy. 

Owen  Meredith  :  Lucile,  Pt.  ii..  Canto  i., 

1000  St.  21. 


156    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Nor  jealousy 
Was  understood,  the  iujur'd  lover's  hell. 

1001  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  v.,  Line  449. 

Jest. 

A  jest's  prosperity  lies  in  the  ear 

Of  him  that  hears  it,  never  in  the  tongue 

Of  him  that  makes  it. 

1002  Shaks.  :  Love's  L.  Lost,  Act  v.,  Sc.  2. 

Of  all  the  griefs  that  harass  the  distrest, 
Sure  the  most  bitter  is  a  scornful  jest. 

1003  Dr.  Johnson  :  London,  Line  166. 

Jewel. 

Jt  seems  she  hangs  upon  the  cheek  of  night 
Like  a  rich  jewel  in  an  Ethiope's  ear. 

1004  Shaks.  :  Rom.  and  Jul,  Act  i.,  Sc.  5. 

Joke. 

A  college  joke  to  cure  the  dumps. 

1005  Swift  :   Cassinus  and  Peter. 

Joy. 

Capacity  for  joy 
Admits  temptation. 

Mrs.  Browning*:  Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  i., 

1006  Line  703. 

Joy  is  the  mainspring  in  the  whole 
Of  endless  Nature's  calm  rotation. 
Joy  moves  the  dazzling  wheels  that  roll 
In  the  great  Time-piece  of  Creation. 

1007  Schiller  :  Hymn  to  Joy 


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Joys  too  exquisite  to  last, 

And  yet  more  exquisite  when  past. 

1008  James  Montgomery  :   The  Little  Cloud. 

Judgment. 

A  Daniel  come  to  judgment!  yea,  a  Daniel! 

1009  Shaks.  :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

O  judgment !  thou  art  fled  to  brutish  beasts, 
And  men  have  lost  their  reason. 

1010  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

July. 

Then  came  hot  July,  boiling  like  to  fire, 
That  all  his  garments  he  had  cast  away. 

Spenser  :   Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  vii.,  Canto  vii., 

1011  St.  36. 

June. 

And  what  is  so  rare  as  a  day  in  June  ? 
Then,  if  ever,  come  perfect  days; 
Then  heaven  tries  the  earth  if  it  be  in  tune, 
And  over  it  softly  her  warm  ear  lays. 

James  Russell  Lowell:   Vision  of  Sir 

1012  Launfal. 

Juries. 

The  jury,  passing  on  the  prisoner's  life, 
May,  in  the  sworn  twelve,  have  a  thief  or  two 
Guiltier  than  him  they  try. 

1013  Shaks.  :  M.for  J/.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Do  not  your  juries  give  their  verdict 
As  if  they  felt  the  cause,  not  heard  it? 
And  as  they  please  make  matter  of  fact 
Run  all  on  one  side  as  they  're  packt. 

Butler  :  Hudibras,  Pt.  ii..  Canto  ii., 
lOU  Line  365. 


158    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Justice. 

And  then,  the  justice  ; 
In  fair  round  belly,  with  good  capon  lin'd, 
AVith  eyes  severe,  and  beai'd  of  formal  cut, 
Full  of  wise  saws  and  modern  instances, 
And  so  he  plays  his  part. 

1015  Shaks.  :  As  You  Like  It,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  7. 

The  gods 
Grow  angry  with  your  patience  :  't  is  their  care, 
And  must  be  yours,  that  guilty  men  escape  not: 
As  crimes  do  grow,  justice  should  rouse  itself. 

1016  Ben  Jonson  :  Catiline,  Act  iii.,  Sc  4. 

Man  is  unjust,  but  God  is  just ;  and  finally  justice 
Triumphs. 

1017  Longfellow  :  Evangeline,  Pt.  I.,  iii.,  Line  34. 


K. 

Keys. 

Two  massy  keys  he  bore,  of  metals  twain 
(The  golden  opes,  the  iron  shuts  amain). 

1018  MiLTOx:  Lycidas,  Line  109. 

Kin. 

A  little  more  than  kin,  and  less  than  kind. 

1019  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

One  touch  of  nature  makes  the  whole  world  kin. 

1020  Shaks.:   Trail,  and  Cress.,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  ;j. 

Kindness. 

Kindness  in  women,  not  their  beauteous  looks. 
Shall  win  my  love. 

1021  Shaks.  :  Ta7n.  of  the  S.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  2. 


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That  best  portion  of  a  good  man's  life, — 
His  little,  nameless,  unremembered  acts 
Of  kindness  and  of  love. 

Wordsworth  :  Lines  composed  a  few  miles 

1022  above  Tintern  Abbey. 

Kings. 

What  have  kings  that  privates  have  not  too. 
Save  ceremony? 

1023  Shaks.  :  Henry  V.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

Kings  are  like  stars,  —  they  rise  and  set,  they  have 
The  worship  of  the  world,  but  no  repose. 

1024  Shelley:  i/c //as,  Line  195. 


Showers  on  her  kings  barbaric  pearl  and  gold. 

1025  Milton:  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  1. 

Kissing. 

Then  kiss  me  hard, 
As  if  he  pluck'd  up  kisses  by  the  roots, 
That  grew  upon  my  lips. 

1026  Shaks.  :  Othello,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  3. 

Teach  not  thy  lip  such  scorn  ;  for  it  was  made 
For  kissing,  lady,  not  for  such  contempt. 

1027  Shaks.  :  Richard  IIL,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

When  my  lips  meet  thine 
Thy  very  soul  is  wedded  unto  mine. 

H.  H.  BoYESEx:    Thy  Gracious  Face  T 

1028  Greet  with  Glad  Surp7'is& 


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Her  mouth's  culled  sweetness  by  thy  kisses  shed 
On  cheeks  and  neck  and  eyelids,  and  so  led 
Back  to  her  mouth  which  answers  there  for  all. 
Dante  Gabriel  Rossetti  :  Love-Sweetness, 
1029  Sonnet  xiii. 

I  rest  content,  I  kiss  your  eyes, 

1  kiss  your  hair,  in  my  delight: 

I  kiss  my  hand,  and  say.  Good  night. 

lOoO  Joaquin  ]Millek  :  Isles  of  the  Amazons,  Pt.  v. 

One  kiss  —  and  then  another — and  another  — 
Till 't  is  too  late  to  go  —  and  so  return. 
Charles  Kingsley:  Saint's  Tragedy,  Act  ii., 

1031  Sc.  10. 

Dear  as  remember'd  kisses  after  death, 
And  sweet  as  those  by  hopeless  fancy  feign'd 
On  lips  that  are  for  others. 

1032  Tennyson  :  The  Princess,  Pt.  iv..  Line  36. 

Knavery. 

There  's  ne'er  a  villain  dwelling  in  all  Denmark 
But  he  's  an  arrant  knave. 

1033  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  5. 

Whip  me  such  honest  knaves. 

1031  Shaks.  :  Othello,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Knell. 

By  fairy  hands  their  knell  is  rung; 
By  forms  unseen  their  dirge  is  sung. 

1035  William  Collins  :  Lines  in  1746. 

Ne'er  sigh'd  at  the  sound  of  a  knell, 
Or  smil'd  when  a  Sabbath  appear'd. 

Cowper  :    Vei-ses  supposed  to  be  icritten  hy 

1036  Alexander  Selkirk. 


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Knowledge. 

Knowledge  is  as  food,  and  needs  no  less 
Her  temp'rance  over  appetite,  to  know 
In  measure  what  the  niiud  may  well  contain  ; 
Oppresses  else  with  surfeit,  and  soon  turns 
AVisdom  to  folly. 

1037  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  vii.,  Line  120. 

All  our  knowledge  is,  ourselves  to  know. 

1038  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  iv.,  Line  397. 

/  know  —  is  all  the  mourner  saith, 
Knowledge  by  suffering  entereth  ; 
And  Life  is  perfected  by  Death  ! 

1039  Mrs.  Browning  :  Vision  of  Poets,  St.  330. 

Knowledge  comes,  but  wisdom  lingers. 

1040  Tennyson:  Locksley  Hall,  Line  141. 

But  Knowledge  to  their  eyes  her  ample  page, 
Rich  with  the  spoils  of  time,  did  ne'er  unroll. 

1041  Gray:  Eleyy,  St.  13. 

Oh,  be  wiser  thou  ! 
Listructed  that  true  knowledge  leads  to  love. 

Wordsworth  :  Lines  left  upon  a  Seat  in 

1042  a  Yew-tree. 


Labor. 

T  have  seen  a  swan 
With  bootless  labor  swim  against  the  tide, 
And  spend  her  strength  with  over-matching  waves. 
1043  Shaks.  :  3  Henry  VI.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  4. 


1G2    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Labor,  you  know,  is  Prayer. 

1044  Bayard  Taylor  :  Improvisations,  St.  11. 

Taste  the  joy 
That  springs  Irom  hibor. 

1045  Longfellow  :  Masque  of  Pandora,  Pt.  vi. 

To  fall'n  huinaiiity  our  Fatlier  said, 

That  food  and  bliss  sliould  not  be  found  unsought ; 

That  man  should  labor  for  his  daily  bread  ; 

But  not  that  man  should  toil  and  sweat  for  nought. 

1046  Ebenezer  Elliott  :   Corn  Law  Hymns. 

To  labor  is  the  lot  of  man  below ; 

And  when  Jove  gave  us  life,  he  gave  us  woe. 

1047  Pope  :  Iliad,  Bk.  x..  Line  78. 

Ladies. 

Ladies,  like  variegated  tulips,  show 

'T  is  to  their  changes  half  their  charms  we  owe. 

1048  Pope  :  Moral  Essays,  Epis.  ii.,  Line  41. 

Lake. 

On  thy  fair  bosom,  silver  lake. 

The  wild  swan  spreads  his  snowy  sail, 

And  round  his  breast  the  ripples  break 
As  down  he  bears  before  the  gale. 

1049  James  G.  Percival  :   7o  Seneca  Lake. 

Land. 

Breathes  tliere  the  man  with  soul  so  dead 
Who  never  to  himself  hath  said 
This  is  my  own,  my  native  land ! 

Scott:  Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  Canto  vi., 

1050  St.  1. 


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O  Caledonia  !  stern  and  wild, 

Meet  nurse  lor  a  poetic  child! 

Land  of  brown  heath  and  shaggy  wood ; 

Land  of  the  mountain  and  the  flood ! 

Scott  :  Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  Canto  vi., 

1051  St.  2. 

Landscape. 

The  low'ring  element 
Scowls  o'er  the  darken'd  landscape 

1052  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  490. 

Ever  charming,  ever  new, 

AVhen  will  the  landscape  tire  the  view  ? 

1053  John  Dyer  :  Grongar  Hill,  Line  102. 

Language. 

Fit  language  there  is  none 
For  the  heart's  deepest  things. 

James  Russell  Lowell:  Legend  of  Brittany, 
1051  Pt.  i.,  St.  28. 

Spake  full  well,  in  language  quaint  and  olden, 
One  who  dwelleth  by  the  castled  Rhine, 

When  he  called  the  flowers,  so  blue  and  golden, 
Stai's,  that  in  earth's  firmament  do  shine. 

1055  Longfellow  :  Flowers. 

Lark. 

Now  hear  the  lark, 
The  herald  of  the  morn;  .  .  .  whose  notes  do  beat 
The  vanity  heavens,  so  high  above  our  heads,  .  .  . 
Some  say  the  lark  makes  sweet  division. 

1056  Shaks.  :  Rom.  and  Jul.,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  5. 

And  now  the  herald  lark 
Left  his  ground-nest,  high  tow'ring  to  descry 
The  morn's  approach,  and  greet  her  with  his  song. 

1057  Milton  :  Par.  Regained,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  279 


164    DICTIOXAKY  OP'  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Lass. 

A  penniless  lass  wi'  a  lang  pedigree. 

1058  Lady  Nairne:   The  Laird  o'  Cockpen. 

Latin. 

That  soft  bastard  Latin, 
^V^hich  melts  like  kisses  from  a  female  mouth. 

1059  Byrox  :  Beppo,  St.  44. 

Laughter. 

Laughter,  holding  both  his  sides. 

1060  ^Iilton:  V Allegro,  Line  32. 

Vulcan  with  awkward  grace  his  office  plies, 
And  unextinguish'd  laughter  shakes  the  skies. 

1061  Pope  :  Iliad,  Bk.  i..  Line  770. 

Law^. 

In  law,  what  plea  so  tainted  and  corrupt. 
But,  being  seasoned  with  a  gracious  voice, 
Obscures  the  show  of  evil  ? 

1062  Shaks.  :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

Laws  grind  the  poor,  and  rich  men  rule  the  law. 

1063  Goldsmith.:   Traveller,  Line  386. 

And  sovereign  law,  that  state's  collected  will. 

O'er  thrones  and  globes  elate. 
Sits  empress,  crowning  good,  repressing  ill. 
1061     Sir  William  Jones  :  Ode  in  Im.  of  Alcceus. 

Leaf  —  Leaves. 

My  way  of  life 
Is  fall'n  into  the  sere,  the  yellow  leaf. 
1065  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  v.,  Sc.  3. 


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Call  for  the  robin-redbreast  and  the  wren, 
Since  o'er  shady  groves  they  hover, 
And  with  leaves  and  flowers  do  cover 
The  friendless  bodies  of  unburied  men. 

John  Webster  :  Tlie  White  Devil,  Act  v., 

1066  Sc.  2. 

Like  leaves  on  trees  the  race  of  man  is  fonnd,  — 
Now  green  in  youth,  now  withering  on  the  ground. 

1067  '         Pope:  7/iW,  Bk.  vi.,  Line  181. 

Learning. 

"  The  thrice  three  Muses  mourning  for  the  death 
Of  learning,  late  deceas'd  in  beggary,"  — 
That  is  some  satire,  keen  and  critical. 

1068  Shaks.  :  Mid.  N.  Dream,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Learning  unrefin'd. 
That  oft  enlightens  to  corrupt  the  mind. 

1069  Falconer  :  Shipicreck;  Canto  i..  Line  166. 

Some  for  renown,  on  scraps  of  learning  dote. 
And  think  they  grow  immortal  as  they  quote. 

1070  Young:  Zoi-e  o/jPame,  Satire  i.,  Line  89. 

Lending. 

Loan  oft  loses  both  itself  and  friend. 

1071  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

If  thou  wilt  lend  this  money,  lend  it  not 

As  to  thy  friends;   (for  when  did  friendship  take 

A  breed  of  barren  metal  of  his  friend?) 

But  lend  it  rather  to  thine  enemy  ; 

Who,  if  he  break,  thou  mayst  with  better  face 

Exact  the  penalties. 

1072  Siiaks.  :  .V.  of  Venice,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 


166    DICTIOXARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATION'S. 

Letters. 

My  letters  !  all  dead  paper,  mute  and  white ! 
And  yet  they  seetn  alive,  and  quivering 
Against  my  tremulous  hands  which  loose  the  string 
And  let  them  drop  down  on  my  knee  to-night. 
Mrs.  Bhowxixg  :   Sonnets  fr.  Portuguese, 

1073  Sonnet  xxviii. 

Kind  messages,  that  pass  from  land  to  land ; 
Kind  letters,  that  betray  the  heart's  deep  history, 
In  which  we  feel  the  pressure  of  a  hand,  — 
One  touch  of  fire,  —  and  all  the  rest  is  mystery  ! 
Longfellow  :  Dedication  to  Seaside  and 

1074  Fireside,  St.  5. 

You  have  the  letters  Cadmus  gave,  — 
Think  ye  he  meant  them  for  a  slave? 

1075  Byron:  Don  Juan,  Canto  iii.,  St.  86.  10. 

Liberty. 

I  must  have  liberty 
Withal,  as  large  a  charter  as  the  wind, 
To  blow  on  whom  I  please. 

1076  Shaks.  :  .4s  You  Like  It,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  7. 

In  liberty's  defence,  my  noble  task. 
Of  which  all  Europe  rings  from  side  to  side; 
This  thought  might  lead  me  through  the  world's 

vain  mask. 
Content,  though  blind — had  I  no  better  guide. 

1077  Milton:  ^onviQi's.'s.u.,  To  Cyriack  Skinner. 

When  liberty  is  gone, 
Life  grows  insipid  and  has  lost  its  relish. 

1078  Addison  :  Cato,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  3. 


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Liberty,  like  day, 
Breaks  on  the  soul,  and  by  a  flash  from  Heaven 
Fires  all  the  faculties '^vitll  glorious  joy. 

1079  CowPER  :    Task,  Bk.  v.,  Line  882. 

Liberty  's  in  every  blow  ! 
Let  us  do  or  die. 

1080  Burns:  Bannockbum. 

The  mountain  nymph,  sweet  Liberty. 

1081  MiLTOX:  V Allegro,  lAuQ^Q. 

Lies. 

You  told  a  lie ;  an  odious,  damned  lie : 
Upon  my  soul,  a  lie ;  a  wicked  lie. 

1082  Shaks.  :  Othello,  Act  v.,  Sc.  2. 

Dare  to  be  true.     Nothing  can  need  a  lie ; 

A  fault  which  needs  it  most,  grows  two  thereby. 

1083  Herbert  :    Temple,  Church  Porch,  St.  13. 

Life. 

Life  's  but  a  walking  shadow ;  a  poor  player, 

That  struts  and  frets  his  hour  upon  the  stage, 

And  then  is  heard  no  more  :  it  is  a  tale 

Told  by  an  idiot,  full  of  sound  and  fury, 

Signifying  nothing. 

1081  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  v.,  Sc.  5. 

Xor  love  thy  life,  nor  hate ;  but  what  thou  livest. 
Live  well;  how  long  or  short,  permit  to  Heav'n. 

1085  MiLTOx:  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  xi.,  Line  553. 

Must  we  count 
Life  a  curse  and  not  a  blessing,  summed-up  in  its 

whole  amount. 
Help  and  hindrance,  joy  and  sorrow? 

1086  Robert  Browning  :  La  Saisiaz,  Line  206 


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Between  two  worlds,  life  hovers  like  a  star 
'Twixt  night  and  morn,  npon  the  horizon's  verge. 

1087  Byron  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  xv.,  St.  99. 

Our  life  is  scarce  the  twinkle  of  a  star 
In  God's  eternal  day. 

1088  Bayard  Taylor:  Autumnal  Vespers. 

Life  is  the  gift  of  God,  and  is  divine. 

Longfellow:   T.  of  a  Wayside  Inn, 

1089  Emma  and  Eginliard. 

What  is  life?     A  thawing  icehoard 

On  a  sea  with  sunny  shore  : 
Gay  we  sail ;  it  melts  beneath  us; 

We  are  sunk  and  seen  no  more. 

1090  Carlyle  :   Cui  Bono. 

Life  's  a  vast  sea 
That  does  its  mighty  errand  without  fail, 
Panting  in  unchanged  strength  though  waves  are 
changing. 

1091  George  Eliot:  Spanish  Gypsy,  Bk.  iii. 

Life  is  not  to  be  bought  with  heaps  of  gold  : 
Not  all  Apollo's  Pythian  treasures  hold, 
Or  Troy  once  held,  in  peace  and  pride  of  sway. 
Can  bribe  the  poor  possession  of  a  day. 

1092  Pope  :  Iliad,  Bk.  ix..  Line  524. 

So  careful  of  the  type  she  seems, 
So  careless  of  the  single  life. 

1093  Tennyson:  In  Memoriam,\y.,^i.1. 

Light. 

Hail,  holy  Light!  offspring  of  Heaven  first-born  I 
Or  of  the  Eternal  coeternal  beam, 


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May  I  express  thee  unblam'd  ?  since  God  is  light, 
And  never  but  in  unapproached  light 
Dwelt  from  eternity,  dwelt  then  in  thee, 
Bi'ight  effluence  of  bright  essence  increate  ! 

1094  MiLTOx :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iii.,  Line  1. 

But  yet  the  light  that  led  astray 
Was  light  from  heaven. 

1095  Burns:   The  Vision. 

The  light  that  never  was,  on  sea  or  land ; 
The  consecration,  and  the  Poet's  dream. 

Wordsworth  :  Suggested  hy  a  Picture  of 

1096  Peek  Castle  in  a  Storm,  St.  4. 

Light,  light,  and  light!  to  break  and  melt  in 
sunder 

All  clouds  and  chains  that  in  one  bondage  bind 
Eyes,  hands,  and  spirits,  forged  by  fear  and  wonder 

And  sleek  fierce  fraud  with  hidden  knife  behind. 

1097  Swinburne:  Eve  of  Revolution,  St.  10. 

Lightning. 

Swift  as  a  shadow,  short  as  any  dream ; 
Brief  as  the  lightning  in  the  collied  night. 

1098  Shaks.  :  Mid.  N.  Dream,  Act  i.,  Sc.  L 

Lilies. 

Like  the  lily, 
That  once  was  mistress  of  the  field  and  flourish'd, 
I  '11  hang  my  head  and  perish. 

1099  Shaks.  :  Heyirjj  VIIL,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

In  twisted  braids  of  lilies  knitting 
The  loose  train  of  thy  amber-dropping  hair. 

1100  Milton:  Comw^,  Line  859. 


170    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Lincoln,  Abraham. 

This  man,  whose  homely  face  you  look  upon, 
Was  one  of  Nature's  masterful,  great  men  ; 
Born  with  strong  arms,  that  unfought  battles  won 
Direct  of  speech,  and  cunning  with  the  pen. 
Chosen  for  large  designs,  he  had  the  art 
Of  winning  with  his  humor,  and  he  went 
Straigl)t  to  his  mark,  whicli  was  the  human  heart; 
Wise,  too,  for  what  he  could  not  break  he  bent. 
Upon  his  back  a  more  than  Atlas-load,  — 
The  burden  of  the  Commonwealth,  —  was  laid  ; 
He  stooped,  and  rose  up  to  it,  though  the  road 
Shot  suddenly  downwards,  not  a  whit  dismayed. 
Hold,  warriors,  councillors,  kings !     All  now  give 

place 
To  this  dear  benefactor  of  the  Race. 

1101  R.  H.  Stoddard:  Abraham  Lincoln. 

Line. 

Marlowe's  mighty  line. 

Ben  Jonson  :   To  the  Memory  of 

1102  Shakespeare. 

Profan'd  the  God-given  strength,  and  marr'd  the 
lofty  line. 

1103  Scott  :  Marmion,  Introduction  to  Canto  i. 

Lion. 

The  lion,  dying,  thrusteth  forth  his  paw, 

And  wounds  tiie  earth,  if  nothing  else,  with  rage 

To  be  o'erpovvered. 

1101  Shaks.  :  Richard  II.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Lips. 

Her  lips  are  roses  over-washed  with  dew, 
[    Or  like  the  purple  of  Narcissus'  flower ; 


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No  frost  their  fair,  no  wind  doth  waste  their  power, 
But  by  her  breath  her  beauties  do  renew. 

Robert  Greene:  From  Menaphon. 

1105  Menophons  EcL 

Xiittle. 

Contented  wi'  little,  and  cantie  wi'  mair. 

1106  Burns:   Contented  wi' Little. 

Man  wants  but  little  here  below, 
Xor  wants  that  little  long. 

1107  Goldsmith  :   The  Hermit,  Ch.  viii.,  St.  8. 

Locks. 

Thou  canst  not  say  I  did  it ;  never  shake 
Thy  gory  locks  at  me. 

1108  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 

John  Anderson  my  jo,  John, 

When  we  were  first  acquent. 
Your  locks  were  like  the  raven, 

Your  bonny  brow  was  brent. 

1109  B\5B.T^s:  John  Anderson. 

Logic. 

He  was  in  logic  a  great  critic. 

Profoundly  skill'd  in  analytic ; 

He  could  distinguish  and  divide 

A  hair  'twixt  south  and  south'-^vest  side. 

Butler  :  Hudibras,  Pt.  i.,  Canto  i., 

1110  Line  65. 

London. 

London !  the  needy  villain's  general  home. 
The  common-sewer  of  Paris  and  of  Rome ! 
With  eager  thirst,  by  folly  or  by  fate. 
Sucks  in  the  dregs  of  each  corrupted  state. 

1111  Dr.  Johnson  :  London,  Line  83. 


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Longings. 

I  have 
Immortal  longings  in  me. 

1112  Shaks.  :  Ant.  and  Cleo.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  2. 

Looks. 

My  only  books 
Were  woman's  looks,  — 
And  folly  's  all  they  've  taught  me. 

1113  Moore  :   77<e  Time  Fve  Lost  in  Wooing. 

Where  village   statesmen   talk'd  with  looks  pro- 
found, 
And  news  much  older  than  their  ale  went  round. 

1114  Goldsmith:  Des.  Village,  Line  223. 

Lord. 

Lord  of  himself,  —  that  heritage  of  woe ! 

1115  Byron:  Lara,  Canto  i.,  St.  2. 

Lord  of  himself,  though  not  of  lands ; 
And  having  nothing,  yet  hath  all. 

1116  Wotton:  Character  of  a  Happy  Life. 

Loss. 

That  loss  is  common  would  not  make 
My  own  less  bitter  —  rather  more ; 
Too  common  !     Never  morning  wore 

To  evening  but  some  heart  did  break. 

Tennyson  :  hi  Memoriam,  Ft.  vi., 

1117  St.  2. 

Love. 

O,  how  this  spring  of  love  resembleth 
The  uncertain  glory  of  an  April  day ; 
Which  now  shows  all  the  beauty  of  the  sun, 
And  by  and  by  a  cloud  takes  all  away. 

1118  Shaks.  :   Two  Gent,  of  V.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 


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Love  is  a  spirit  all  compact  of  fire ; 

Not  gross  to  sink,  but  light,  and  will  aspire. 

1119  Shaks.:    Vemi^  and  A.,  Line  149. 

Such  is  the  power  of  that  sweet  passion, 
That  it  all  sordid  baseness  doth  expel, 
And  the  refined  mind  doth  newly  fashion 
Unto  a  fairer  form,  which  now  doth  dwell 
In  his  high  thought,  that  would  itself  excel ; 
Which  he,  beholding  still  with  constant  sight, 
Admires  the  mirror  of  so  heavenly  light. 

1120  Spenser:  Hymn  in  Honor  of  Love. 

How  could  I  tell  I  should  love  thee  to-day, 

Whom  that  day  I  held  not  dear? 
How  could  I  know  I  should  love  thee  away 

When  I  did  not  love  thee  anear? 

1121  JeanIngelow:  Supper  at  the  Mill.     Song. 

Instruct  me  now  what  love  will  do ; 

'T  will  make  a  tongueless  man  to  woo. 

Inform  me  next  what  love  will  do  ; 

'T  will  strangely  make  a  one  of  two. 

Teach  me  besides  what  love  will  do ; 

'T  will  quickly  mar  and  make  ye  too. 

Tell  me,  now  last,  what  love  will  do; 

'T  will  hurt  and  heal  a  heart  pierc'd  through. 

1122  Sir  John  Suckling:  A^ih.  of  Love. 

Love  is  the  only  good  in  the  world. 
Henceforth  be  loved  as  heart  can  love, 
Or  brain  devise,  or  hand  approve. 

Robert  Browning:  Flight  of  the  Duchess, 

1123  Ft.  XV. 

Mutual  love  brings  mutual  delight  — 

Brings  beauty,  life ;  for  love  is  life,  hate,  death. 

1124  "         R.  H.  Dana  :   The  Dying  Raven. 


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Let  tliose  love  now,  who  never  loved  before. 
Let  those  who  always  loved,  now  love  the  more. 

1125  Parnell  ;   Trans,  of  Pervigilium  Veneris. 

Love,  well  thou  know'st,  no  partnership  allows: 
Cupid  averse  rejects  divided  vows. 

1126  Prior:  Henry  and  Emma^  Line  590. 

And   love,  life's   fine  centre,  inckides   heart  and 
mind. 

Owen  Meredith  :  Lucile,  Pt.  ii., 

1127  Canto  i.,  St.  17. 

I  hold  it  true,  whate'er  befall, 

1  feel  it  when  I  sorrow  most ; 

'T  is  better  to  have  loved  and  lost, 
Than  never  to  have  loved  at  all. 

1128  Tennyson  :  In  Memoriam,  Pt.  xxvii.,  St.  4. 

Had  we  never  loved  so  kindly. 
Had  we  never  loved  so  blindly. 
Never  met,  or  never  parted, 
AVe  had  ne'er  been  broken-hearted. 

1129  Burns:  Song,  Ae  Fond  Kiss. 

Love  in  a  hut,  with  water  and  a  crust, 

Is  —  Love,  forgive  us!  cinders,  ashes,  dust. 

1130  Keats:  Lamia,  Pt.  ii.,  Line  1, 

AMiy  did  she  love  him?     Curious  fool !  be  still; 
Is  human  love  the  growth  of  human  will? 

1131  Byron  :  Lara,  Canto  ii.,  St.  22. 

There  is  no  pleasure  like  the  pain 
Of  being  loved,  and  loving. 

1132  Praed  :  Legend  of  the  Haunted  Tree. 

Man's  love  is  of  man's  life  a  thing  apart, 
'T  is  woman's  whole  existence. 

1133  Byron  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  i.,  St.  194. 


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In  peace,  Love  tunes  the  shepherd's  reed; 

In  war,  he  mounts  the  warrior's  steed; 

In  halls,  in  gay  attire  is  seen  ; 

In  hamlets,  dances  on  the  green ; 

Love  rules  the  court,  the  camp,  the  grove, 

And  men  below,  and  saints  above; 

For  love  is  heaven  and  heaven  is  love. 

Scott:  Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  Canto  iii., 

1134  St.  2. 

True  love  is  at  home  on  a  carpet, 

And  mightily  likes  his  ease,  — 

And  true  love  has  an  eye  for  a  dinner. 

And  starves  beneath  shady  trees. 

His  wing  is  the  fan  of  a  lady, 

His  foot 's  an  invisible  thing, 

And  his  arrow  is  tipp'd  with  a  jewel, 

And  shot  from  a  silver  string. 

1135  Willis:  Love  in  a  Cottage. 

What  is  love?  't  is  nature's  treasure, 
'T  is  the  storehouse  of  her  jo3's ; 
'T  is  the  highest  heaven  of  pleasure, 
'T  is  a  bliss  which  never  cloys. 

Thomas  Chattertox:   The  Revenge,  Act  i., 

1136  Sc.  2. 

Luxury. 

O  Luxury !  thou  curs'd  by  heaven's  decree. 
How  ill-exchang'd  are  things  like  these  for  thee ! 
How  do  thy  potions,  with  insidious  joy. 
Diffuse  their  pleasures  only  to  destroy  ! 

1137  Goldsmith  :  Des.  Village,  Line  395. 

Blest  hour  !  it  was  a  luxury  —  to  be  ! 

Coleridge  :  Reflections  on  Having  Left  a 

1138  Place  of  Retirement. 


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M. 

Madness. 

I  am  not  mad ;  —  I  would  to  heaven  I  were! 
For  then,  't  is  like  I  should  forget  myself ; 
O,  if  I  could,  what  grief  should  I  forget ! 

1139  Shaks.  :  King  John,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 

Madness  in  great  ones  must  not  unwatch'd  go. 

1140  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

And  moody  madness  laughing  wild 
Amid  severest  woe. 

1141  Gray:  On  a  Distant  Prospect  of  Eton  College. 

Man. 

O,  what  may  man  within  him  hide, 
Though  angel  on  the  outward  side ! 

1142  Shaks.  :  M.for  M.,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

He  was  a  man,  take  him  for  all  in  all, 
I  shall  not  look  upon  his  like  again. 

1143  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

His  life  was  gentle  ;  and  the  elements 

So  niix'd  in  him,  that  Nature  might  stand  up, 

And  say  to  all  the  world,  "  This  was  a  man  !  " 

1144  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  v.,  Sc.  5. 

Man  is  one  world,  and  hath 
Another  to  attend  him. 

1145  Herbert:   The  Temple.    Man. 

Know  then  thyself,  presume  not  God  to  scan, 
The  proper  study  of  mankind  is  Man. 

1146  Pope:  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  ii.,  Line  1. 


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What  tho'  on  hamely  fare  we  dine, 
Wear  hoddin  gray,  and  a'  that? 
Gie  fools  their  silks  and  knaves  their  wine, 
A  man  's  a  man  for  a'  that ! 

1147  BuRXS  :  For  a'  That  and  a'  That. 

]Man  is  a  summer's  day;  whose  youth  and  fire 
Cool  to  a  glorious  evening,  and  expire. 

1148  Henry  Vaughan:  Rules  and  Lessons. 

Beyond  the  poet's  sweet  dream  lives 
The  eternal  epic  of  the  man. 

1149  Whittier  :   The  Grave  hy  the  Lake,  St.  34. 

What  is  man?     A  foolish  baby; 
Vainly  strives,  and  fights,  and  frets: 
Demanding  all,  deserving  nothing, 
One  small  grave  is  all  he  gets. 

1150  Carlyle  :  Cid  Bono. 

Manners. 

Fit  for  the  mountains  and  the  barb'rous  caves, 
Where  manners  ne'er  were  preach'd. 

1151  Shaks.  :   TiL\  Night,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

Manners  with  fortunes,  humors  turn  with  climes, 
Tenets  with  books,  and  principles  with  times. 

1152  Pope  :  Moral  Essays,  Epis.  i.,  Line  172. 

Marble. 

And  sleep  in  dull  cold  marble. 

1153  Shaks.  :  Hejiry  VIIL,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

All  your  better  deeds 
Shall  be  in  water  writ,  but  this  in  marble. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher  :  Philaster, 

1154  Act  v.,  Sc.  3. 


178    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

March. 

Tlie  stormy  ]\Iarch  is  come  at  last, 

With  wind,  and  clouds,  and  ciiaiiging  skies; 

I  liear  tlie  rushing  of  the  blast. 

That  through  the  snowy  valleys  flies. 

1155  William  Cullen  JBkyant:  March. 

Ah,  March  !  we  know  thou  art 
Kind-hearted,  spite  of  ugly  looks  and  threats. 
And,  out  of  sight,  art  nursing  April's  violets! 

1156  Helen  Hunt:  March. 

Marriage. 

The  ancient  saying  is  no  heresy ;  — 
Hanging  and  wiving  goes  by  destiny. 

1157  Shaks.  :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  9. 

Marriage  is  a  matter  of  more  worth 
Thau  to  be  dealt  in  by  attorneyship. 

1158  Shaks.  :  1  Henry  VI.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  5. 

The  joys  of  marriage  are  the  heaven  on  earth. 
Life's  paradise,  great  princess,  the  soul's  quiet, 
Sinews  of  concord,  earthly  immortality, 
Eternity  of  pleasures. 

1159  Ford  :  Broken  Heart,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

Hail,  wedded  love !  mysterious  law,  true  source 
Of  human  offspring. 

1160  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iv..  Line  750. 

Marriage  is  the  life-long  miracle. 
The  self-begetting  wonder,  daily  fresh. 

Charles  Kingsley  :  Saint's  Tragedy, 

1161  Act  ii.,  Sc.  9. 


DICTIONARY  OF   POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.    179 

Martyrs. 

Life  has  its  martyrs,  as  brave,  as  strong,  and  as 

faithful, 
E'en  as  the  martyrs  of  death. 

1162  H.  H.  BoYESEX:   Calpumia,  Pt.  iv. 

A  pale  martyr  in  his  shirt  of  fire. 

1163  Alexander  Smith  :  A  Life  Drama,  Sc.  2. 

Masters. 

We  cannot  all  be  masters,  nor  all  masters 

Cannot  be  truly  followed. 

1161  Shaks.  :   Othello,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Men  at  some  time  are  masters  of  their  fates : 
The  fault,  dear  Brutus,  is  not  in  our  stars, 
But  in  ourselves,  that  we  are  underlings. 

1165  Shaks.  :  Jul.  CcBsar,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

Matter. 

When  Bishop  Berkeley  said  "there  was  no  matter,'' 
And  proved  it,  —  't  was  no  matter  -what  he  said. 

1166  Byron:  Don  Juan,  Canto  xi.,  St.  1. 

May. 

The  voice  of  one  who  goes  before,  to  make 
The  paths  of  June  more  beautiful,  is  thine. 
Sweet  May  1 

1167  Helen  Hunt:  May. 

The  new-born  iSIay, 
As  cradled  yet  in  April's  lap  she  lay. 
Born  in  yon  blaze  of  orient  sky, 
Sweet  May  !  thy  radiant  form  unfold, 
Unclose  thy  blue  voluptuous  eye, 
And  wave  thy  shadowy  locks  of  gold. 

Erasmus  Darwin  :  L.  of  the  Plarit.^, 

1168  Canto  ii.,  Line  307. 


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Now  tlie  bright  moniiiig-star,  Day's  liarbinger, 
Comes  dancing  from  the  east,  and  leads  with  her 
The  flowery  jNIay,  wlio,  from  her  green  lap,  throws 
The  yellow  cowslip,  and  the  pale  primrose. 
1161)  Milton:   Song  on  May  Morning. 

Meeting. 

It  gives  me  wonder,  great  as  my  content, 
To  see  you  here  before  me. 

1170  "^  Shaks.  :   Othello,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Each  hour  until  we  meet  is  as  a  bird 
That  wings  from  far  his  gradual  way  along 
The  rustling  covert  of  my  soul,  —  his  song 
Still  loudlier  trilled  through  leaves  more  deeply 

stirr'd : 
But  at  the  hour  of  meeting,  a  clear  word 
Is  every  note  he  sings,  in  Love's  own  tongue. 
Dante  Gabriel  Rossetti  :  Winged  Hours, 

1171  Sonnet  xv. 

Melancholy. 

There  's  such  a  charm  in  melancholy. 

1172  Rogers:   To . 

These  pleasures.  Melancholy,  give; 
And  I  with  thee  will  choose  to  live. 

1173  Milton:   //  Penseroso,  Line  175. 

Fair  Science  frown'd  not  on  his  humble  birth, 
And  Melancholy  mark'd  him  for  her  own. 

1174  Gray  :  Elegy,  The  Epitaph. 

Melodies. 

And  feeling  hearts,  touch  them  but  rightly,  pour 
A  thousand  melodies  unheard  before ! 

1175  Rogers  :  Hwnnn  Life. 


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Memory. 

Remember  thee  ? 
Yea,  from  the  table  of  my  memory 
I  '11  wipe  away  all  trivial  fond  records, 
All  saws  of  books,  all  forms,  all  pressures  past, 
That  youth  and  observation  copied  there. 

1176  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  So.  5. 

The  eyes  of  memory  will  not  sleep, 

Its  ears  are  open  still, 
And  vigils  with  the  past  they  keep 

Against  my  feeble  will. 

1177  Whittier  :  Knight  of  St.  John. 

Tho'  lost  to  sight,  to  mem'ry  dear 
Thou  ever  wilt  remain. 

1178  George  Linley  :  Song. 

Men. 

Men  are  but  children  of  a  larger  growth. 

1179  Dryden  :  All  for  Love,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

Mercy. 

The  quality  of  mercy  is  not  strain'd; 
It  droppeth,  as  the  gentle  rain  from  heaven 
Upon  the  place  beneath  :  it  is  twice  bless'd; 
It  blesseth  him  that  gives,  and  him  that  takes : 
'T  is  mightiest  in  the  mightiest;  it  becomes 
The  throned  monarch  better  than  his  crown. 

1180  Shaks.  :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

Who  will  not  mercie  unto  others  show, 
How  can  he  mercy  ever  hope  to  have  ? 

Spenser  :  Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  v.,  Canto  ii., 

1181  St.  42. 


182    DICTIONARY  OP^  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Merit. 

Be  thou  the  first  true  merit  to  l)efriend; 

His  praise  is  lost,  who  stays  till  all  conuuend. 

1182  Pope:  E.  on  Criticism,  Pt.  ii.,  Liue  274. 

Midnight. 

The  iron  tongue  of  midnight  hath  told  twelve :  — 
Lovers  to  bed ;  't  is  almost  fairy  time. 

1183  Shaks.  :  Mid.  N.  Dream,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Midnight  brought  on  the  dusky  hour 
Friendliest  to  sleep  and  silence. 

1184  Milton:  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  v.,  Line  667. 

'T  is  midnight  now.     The  bent  and  broken  moon, 
Batter'd  and  black,  as  from  a  thousand  battles, 
Hangs  silent  on  the  purple  walls  of  heaven. 

1185  Joaquin  Miller:  Ina,  Sc.  2. 

Milton. 

That  mighty  orb  of  song. 
The  divine  Milton. 

1186  WoRDSW'ORTH  :   Excursion,  Bk.  i. 

Mind. 

The  mind  is  its  own  place,  and  in  itself 

Can  make  a  Heav'n  of  Hell,  a  Hell  of  Heav'n. 

1187  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  i..  Line  254. 

Measure  your  mind's  height  by  the  shade  it  casts. 

1188  Robert  Browning:  Paracelsus,  Sc.  3. 

Though  man  a  thinking  being  is  defined, 
Few  use  the  grand  prerogative  of  mind. 

Jane  Taylor  :  Essays  in  Rhyme,  Essay  i., 

1189  St.  45. 


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My  mind  to  me  a  kingdom  is; 

Sucii  present  joys  tlierein  1  find, 
That  it  excels  all  other  bliss 

That  earth  affords  or  grows  by  kind. 

1190  Edward  Dyer  :  Ms.  RawL,  85,  p.  17. 

Mirth. 

More  merry  tears 
The  passion  of  loud  laughter  never  shed. 

1191  Shaks.  :  Mid.  N.  Dream,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Come,  thou  Goddess  fair  and  free, 
In  heav'n  yclept  Euphrosyne, 
And  by  men,  heart-easing  Mirth. 

1192  Milton:   U Allegro,  Line  1\. 

As  Tammie  glow'red,  amazed  and  curious, 
The  mirth  and  fun  grew  fast  and  furious. 

1193  Burns:   Tarn  o'  Shanter. 

Mischief. 

O,  mischief  !  thou  art  swift 
To  enter  in  the  thoughts  of  desperate  men ! 
1191  Shaks.  :  Rom.  and  Jul.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

When  to  mischief  mortals  bend  their  will, 
How  soon  they  find  fit  instruments  of  ill ! 
1195  Pope  :  R.  of  the  Lock,  Canto  iii.,  St.  125. 

Misery. 

Sharp  misery  had  worn  him  to  the  bones. 

119G  Shaks.  :  Rom.  and  Jul.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Heaven  hears  and  pities  hapless  men  like  me. 

For  sacred  ev'n  to  gods  is  misery. 

1197  Pope  :  Odyssey,  Bk.  v.,  Line  572. 


184    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Misfortune. 

One  woe  doth  tread  upon  another's  heel, 
So  fast  they  follow. 

1198  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  7. 

As  if  Misfortune  made  the  throne  her  seat, 
And  none  could  be  unhappy  but  the  great. 

1199  XiCHOLAS  Rowe:  Fair  Penitent.    Prologue. 

Mobs. 

You  have  many  enemies  that  know  not 
Why  they  are  so,  but,  like  to  village  curs, 
Bark  when  their  fellows  do. 

1200  Shaks.  :  Henry  VIII.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  4. 

The  rabble  all  alive, 
From  tippling  benches,  cellars,  stalls,  and  sties. 
Swarm  in  the  streets. 

1201  CowPER  :   Task,  Bk.  vi.,  Line  704. 

Mockery. 

Hence,  horrible  shadow! 
Unreal  mockery,  hence  ! 

1202  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 

Modesty. 

Her  looks  do  argue  her  replete  with  modesty. 

1203  Shaks.  :  3  Henry  VI.,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

Such  an  act 
That  blurs  the  grace  and  blush  of  modesty. 

1204  Shaks.:  Hamlet,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 

Monarchs. 

A  morsel  for  a  monarch. 

1205  Shaks.:  Ant.  and  Cleo.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  5. 


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A  lucky  chance,  that  oft  decides  the  fate 
Of  mighty  monarchs. 

1206  Thomson  :  Seasons,  Summer,  Line  1285. 

Money. 

This  yellow  slave 
Will  knit  and  break  religions;    bless  the  acciirs'd; 
Make  the  hoar  lei»rosy  ador'd ;  place  thieves, 
And  give  them  title,  knee,  and  approbation, 
AVith  senators  on  the  bench. 

1207  Shaks.  :   Timon  of  A.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

He  had  rolled  in  money  like  pigs  in  mud. 

1208  Hood:  Miss  KUmansegg. 

'T  is  true  we  've  money,  th'  only  power 
That  all  mankind  falls  down  before. 

Butler  :  Hudibras,  Pt.  iii.,  Canto  ii., 

1209  Line  1327. 

Get  money;  still  get  money,  boy. 
No  matter  by  what  means. 

Bex  Jonsox  :  Every  Man  in  His 

1210  Humour,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  3. 

Months. 

Thirty  days  hath  September, 
April,  June,  and  November, 
All  the  rest  have  thirty-one, 
Excepting  February  alone : 
AVhich  hath  but  twenty-eight,  in  fine, 
Till  leap  year  gives  it  twenty-nine. 

1211  Common  in  the  Xew  England  States. 

Monuments. 

Not  marble,  nor  the  gilded  monuments 

Of  princes,  shall  outlive  this  powerful  rhyme. 

1212  Shaks.  :  Sonnet  55. 


186    DICTIOXARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Mood. 

Anon  they  move 
In  perfect  phalanx,  to  the  Dorian  mood 
Of  flutes  and  soft  recorders. 

1213  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  i.  Line  549. 

Fantastic  as  a  woman's  mood, 

And  fierce  as  Frenzy's  fever'd  blood. 

1214  Scott:  Lad?j  of  the  Lake,  Canto  v.,  St.  30. 

Moon. 

Now  glow'd  the  firmament 
With  living  sapphires;   Hesperus,  that  led 
The  starry  host,  rode  brightest,  till  tiie  Moon, 
Rising  in  clouded  majesty,  at  length, 
Apparent  queen,  unveil'd  her  peerless  light. 
And  o'er  the  dark  her  silver  mantle  threw.       • 

1215  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  604. 

How  like  a  queen  conies  forth  the  lonely  Moon 
From  the  slow  opening  curtains  of  the  clouds ; 
Walking  in  beauty  to  her  midnight  throne ! 

1216  George  Ckoly  :  Diana. 

The  moon  had  climb'd  the  highest  hill 

Which  rises  o'er  the  source  of  Dee, 
And  from  the  eastern  summit  shed 

Her  silver  light  on  tower  and  tree. 

1217  John  Lowe  :  Mary's  Dream. 

Morality. 

Religion  blushing,  veils  her  sacred  fires, 
And  unawares  Morality  expires. 

1218  Pope  :  Dunciad,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  649. 

Morning. 

See  how  the  morning  opes  her  golden  gates, 
And  takes  her  farewell  of  the  glorious  sun  1 


DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.    187 

How  well  resembles  it  the  prime  of  youth, 
Trimm'd  like  a  younker,  prancing  to  his  love. 

1219  Shaks.  :  3  Henry  VI.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Sweet  is  the  breath  of  Morn,  her  rising  sweet, 
With  charm  of  earliest  birds. 

1220  Milton:  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  641. 

Night  wanes  —  the  vapors  round  the  mountains 

curl'd 
Melt  into  morn,  and  light  awakes  the  world. 

1221  Byron:  Lara,  Canto  ii.,  St.  1. 

The  moon  is  carried  off  in  purple  fire  : 
Day  breaks  at  last. 

Robert  Browning:  Return  of  the  Druses, 

1222  Act  1. 

Lord,  in  the  morning  thou  shalt  hear 
My  voice  ascending  high. 

1223  Watts  :  Psalm  v. 

Mortality, 

All,  that  in  this  w^orld  is  great  or  gay. 
Doth,  as  a  vapor,  vanish  and  decay. 

1224  Spenser  :  Ruins  of  Time,  Line  55. 

We  cannot  hold  mortality's  strong  hand. 

1225  Shaks.  :  King  John,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  2. 

Mother. 

A  woman's  love 
Is  mighty,  but  a  mother's  heart  is  weak, 
And  by  its  weakness  overcomes. 

James  Russell  Lowell:  Legend  of 

1226  Brittany,  Pt.  ii.,  St.  43. 


188    DICTIOXARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

A  mother  is  a  mother  still, 
The  holiest  thing  alive. 

1227  Colkkidge:   The  Three  Graves. 

Mountains. 

I  know  a  mount,  the  gracious  Sun  perceives 
First  when  he  visits,  last,  too,  when  he  leaves 
The  world;  and,  vainly  favored,  it  repays 
The  day-long  glory  of  his  steadfast  gaze 
By  no  change  of  its  large  calm  front  of  snow. 

Robert  Browning:  Rudel  To  The  Lnd// 

1228  of  Tripoli. 

And  to  me 
High  mountains  are  a  feeling,  but  the  hum 
Of  human  cities  torture. 

1229  Byron:  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iii.,  St.  72. 

Mounting. 

I  mount  and  mount  toward  the  sky, 

The  eagle's  heart  is  mine, 

I  ride  to  put  the  clouds  a-by  . 

Where  silver  lakelets  shine. 

The  roaring  streams  wax  white  with  snow, 

The  eagle's  nest  draws  near. 

The  blue  sky  widens,  hid  peaks  glow, 

The  air  is  frosty  clear. 

And  so  from  cliff  to  cliff  I  rise, 

The  eagle's  heart  is  mine ; 

Above  me  ever  broadning  skies, 

Below  the  rivers  shine. 

1230  Hamlin  Garland:  Mounting 

Mourning. 

We  must  all  die  ! 
All  leave  ourselves,  it  matters  not  where,  when, 


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Xor  how,  so  we  die  well:  and  can  that  man  that 

does  so 
Need  lamentation  for  him  ? 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher:  Valentinian, 

1231  Act  iv.,  So.  4. 

Ah,  surely  nothing  dies  but  something  mourns. 

1232  Byron:  Don  Juan,  Canto  iii.,  St.  108. 

Murder. 

]\Iurder  most  foul,  as  in  the  best  it  is ; 
But  this  most  foul,  strange,  and  unnatural. 

1233  Shaks.:  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  5. 

Murder  may  pass  unpunish'd  for  a  time, 
But  tardy  justice  will  o'ertake  the  crime. 
1231  Drydex  :  Cock  and  Fox,  Line  285. 

Music. 

The  man  that  hath  no  music  in  himself, 
Xor  is  not  mov'd  with  concord  of  sweet  sounds, 
Is  fit  for  treasons,  stratagems,  and  spoils; 
The  motions  of  his  spirit  are  dull  as  night. 
And  his  affections  dark  as  Erebus: 
Let  no  such  man  be  trusted. 

1235  Shaks.  :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Music's  golden  tongue 
Flatter'd  to  tears  this  aged  man  and  poor. 

1236  Keats:  Eve  of  St.  Agnes,  St.  3. 

Music  has  charms  to  soothe  the  savage  breast, 
To  soften  rocks,  or  bend  the  knotted  oak ; 
I  've  read  that  things  inanimate  have  mov'd, 
And,  as  with  living  souls,  have  been  inform'd, 
By  magic  numbers  and  persuasive  sound. 

1237  Congreve:  Mourning  Bride,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 


190    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Music  the  fiercest  grief  can  charm, 

And  fate's  severest  rage  disarm. 

Music  can  soften  pain  to  ease, 

And  make  despair  and  madness  please; 

Our  joys  below  it  can  improve. 

And  antedate  the  bliss  above. 

1238  Pope  :  Ode  on  St.  Cecilia  s  Day,  St.  7, 

When  Music,  heavenly  maid,  was  young. 
While  yet  in  early  Greece  she  sung. 
The  Passions  oft,  to  hear  her  shell, 
Throng'd  around  her  magic  cell. 
Exulting,  trembling,  raging,  fainting, 
Possest  beyond  the  Muse's  painting. 

1239  Collins:  7'he  Pa.'^sions,  Line  1. 

The  soul  of  music  slumbers  in  the  shell. 
Till  wak'd  and  kindled  by  the  master's  spell. 
And  feeling  hearts  —  touch  them  but  rightly  —  pour 
A  thousand  melodies  unheard  before. 

1240  Rogers:  Human  Life,  Line  362. 

A  few  can  touch  the  magic  string. 

And  noisy  Fame  is  proud  to  win  them; 

Alas  for  those  that  never  sing. 

But  die  with  all  their  music  in  them  1 

1241  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  ;  The  Voiceless. 


N. 
Name. 

What 's  in  a  name?     That  which  we  call  a  rose 

By  any  other  name  would  smell  as  sweet. 

1242  Shaks.:  Rom.  and  Jul.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 


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Who  hath  not  owned,  with  rapture-smitten  frame, 
The  power  of  grace,  the  magic  of  a  name  ? 

1243  Campbell:  PL  of  Hope,  Pt.  ii.,  Line  5. 

Nature. 

Xature  ever  yields  reward 

To  him  who  seeks,  and  loves  her  best, 

1244  Barky  Cornwall:  Abore  and  Beloic. 


O  Xature,  how  fair  is  thy  face, 
And  how  light  is  thy  heart,  and  how  friendless  thy 
grace ! 

Owen  Meredith:  Luciie,  Pt.  i..  Canto  v., 

1245  St.  28. 

To  him  who  in  the  love  of  Nature  holds 
Communion  with  her  visible  forms,  she  speaks 
A  various  language;  for  his  gayer  hours 
She  has  a  voice  of  gladness,  and  a  smile 
And  eloquence  of  beauty,  and  she  glides 
Into  his  darker  musings,  with  a  mild 
And  healing  sympathy,  that  steals  away 
Their  sharpness,  ere  he  is  aware. 

1246  William  Cullen  Bryant:  Thanatopsis. 

News  —  Nev^rspapers. 

The  first  bringer  of  unwelcome  news 
Hath  but  a  losing  office;  and  his  tongue 
Sounds  ever  after  as  a  sullen  bell, 
Remember'd  knolling  a  departing  friend. 

1247  Shaks.  :  2  Henri/  IV.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Evil  news  rides  post,  while  good  news  baits. 

1248  Milton:  Sa77ison  Agonistes,  Line  1538. 


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Turn  to  the  press  —  its  teeming  sheets  survey, 
Big  with  the  wonders  of  each  passing  day ; 
Births,  deaths,  and  weddings,  forgeries,  fires,  and 

wrecks. 
Harangues    and    hailstones,   brawls   and    broken 

necks. 

1249  Sprague:   Curiosity. 

Newton. 

Nature  and  Nature's  laws  lay  hid  in  night: 
God  said,  "Let  Newton  be  ! "  and  all  was  light. 
Pope  :  Epitaph  intended  for  Sir  Isaac 

1250  Newton. 

Newton  (that  proverb  of  the  mind),  alas ! 
Declared,  with  all  his  grand  discoveries  recent, 
That  he  himself  felt  only  "like  a  youth 
Picking  up  shells  by  the  great  ocean  —  Truth." 

1251  Byrox:  Don  Juan,  Canto  vii.,  St.  5. 

New  Year. 

The  wave  is  breaking  on  the  shore, — 
The  echo  fading  from  the  chime  — 
Again  the  shadow  moveth  o'er 
The  dial-plate  of  time ! 

1252  Whittier  :  The  New  Year. 

Niagara. 

Flow  on  for  ever  in  thy  glorious  robe 
Of  terror  and  of  beauty;  .  .  .  God  hath  set 
His  rainbow  on  thy  forehead;  and  the  cloud 
Mantles  around  thy  feet. 

1253  Mrs.  Sigourney:  Niagara. 

Night. 

Dark  night,  that  from  the  eye  his  function  takes. 
The  ear  more  quick  of  apprehension  makes. 

1254  SnAKS. 


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Now  began 
Night  with  her  sullen  wing  to  double-shade 
The  desert;  fowls  in  their  clay  nests  were  couch'd, 
And  now  wild  beasts  came  forth,  the  woods  to  roam. 
1255         Milton:  Par.  Regained,  Bk.  i.,  Line  499. 

Awful  Night! 
Ancestral  mystery  of  mysteries. 
1'256  Gkorge  Eliot:  Spanish  Gypsy,  Bk.  ivo 

Night,  night  it  is,  night  upon  the  palms. 
Night,  night  it  is,  the  land  wind  has  blown. 
Starry,  starry  night,  over  deep  and  height; 
Love,  love  in  the  valley,  love  all  alone. 

Robert  Louis  Stevenson  :  The  Feast 

1257  of  Famine. 

Night  is  the  time  to  weep. 

To  wet  with  unseen  tears 
Those  graves  of  memoi-y  where  sleep 

The  joys  of  other  years. 

James  Montgomery  :  The  Issues  of  Life 

1258  and  Death. 

Nightingale. 

The  nightingale,  if  she  should  sing  by  day, 
When  every  goose  is  cackling,  M'ould  be  thought 
No  better  a  musician  than  the  wren. 
How  many  things  by  season  season'd  are 
To  their  right  praise,  and  true  perfection ! 

1259  Shaks.  :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

O  Nightingale,  that  on  yon  bloomy  spray 
Warblest  at  eve,  when  all  the  woods  are  still, 
Thou  with  fresh  hope  the  lover's  heart  dost  fill. 

1260  Milton:  Sonnet  1. 


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Nobility. 

Noble  by  birth,  yet  nobler  by  great  deeds. 

Longfellow:   Tales  of  a  Wa/jside  Inn. 

1261  Emma  and  Eginhard. 

For  he  who  is  honest  is  noble, 
Whatever  his  fortunes  or  birth. 

1262  Alice  Gary:  Nohilitij. 

North. 

Ask  where 's  the  north?  at  York,  't  is  on  the  Tweed; 

In  Scotland,  at  the  Orcades;  and  there. 

At  Greenland,  Zembla,  or  the  Lord  knows  where. 

1263  Pope:  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  ii.,  Line  222. 

Novembsr. 

Next  was  November ;  he  full  gross  and  fat 

As  fed  with  lard,  and  that  right  well  might  seem; 

For  he  had  been  a-fatting  hogs  of  late, 

That  yet  his  brows  with  sweat  did  reek  and  steam. 

Spenser:  Faerie  Quee/ie,  Bk.vii.,Ganto  vii., 

1264  •  St.  40. 

Li  rattling  showers  dark  November's  rain. 
From  every  stormy  cloud,  descends  amain. 

1265  Ruskin:  The  Months. 

Numbers. 

As  yet  a  child,  nor  yet  a  fool  to  fame, 

I  lisp'd  in  numbers,  for  the  numbers  came. 

1266  Pope:  Prolorjue  to  the  Satires,  Line  127. 


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o. 

Oak. 

Those  green-robed  senators  of  mighty  woods, 
Tall  oaks,  branch-charmed  by  the  earnest  stars, 
Dream,  and  so  dream  all  night  without  a  stir. 
12G7  Keats  :  Hyperion,  Bk.  i. 

A  song  to  the  oak,  the  brave  old  oak, 
Who  hath  ruled  in  the  greenwood  long! 

1268  Henry  F.  Chorley:  The  Brave  Old  Oak, 

Oars. 

The  oars  were  silver. 
Which  to  the  tune  of  flutes  kept  stroke,  and  made 
The  water  which  they  beat  to  follow  faster, 
As  amorous  of  their  strokes. 

1269  Shaks.:  Ant.  and  Cleo.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

Oaths. 

'T  is  not  the  many  oaths  that  make  the  truth ; 
But  the  plain  single  vow,  that  is  vow'd  true. 

1270  Shaks.:  All  's  Well,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  2. 

Oaths  were  not  purpos'd,  more  than  law, 
To  keep  the  good  and  just  in  awe, 
But  to  confine  the  bad  and  sinful. 
Like  moral  cattle,  in  a  pinfold. 

1271  Butler  :  Hudibras,  Ft.  ii.,  Canto  ii..  Line  197. 

Obedience. 

Let  them  obey  that  know  not  how  to  rule. 

1272  Shaks.:  2  Henry  17.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Obedience  is  the  Christian's  crown. 

1273  Schiller:  Fif/ht  with  the  Dragon,  St.  24. 


196    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Observation. 

For  he  is  but  a  bastard  to  the  time 
That  doth  not  smack  of  observation. 

1274  SiiAKS. :  King  John,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Ocean. 

Roll  on,  thou  deep  and  dark  blue  Ocean  —  roll ! 
Ten  thousand  fleets  sweej^  over  thee  in  vain  ; 
]\Ian  marks  the  earth  with  ruin  —  his  control 
Stops  with  the  shore;  —  upon  the  watery  plain 
The  wrecks  are  all  thy  deed,  nor  doth  remain 
A  shadow  of  man's  ravage,  save  his  own, 
When,  for  a  moment,  like  a  drop  of  rain, 
He  sinks  into  thy  depths  with  bubbling  groan. 
Without  a  grave,  unknell'd,  uncoffin'd,  and  un- 
known. 

1275  Byrox:  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iv.,  St.  179. 

One  height 
Showed  him  the  ocean,  stretched  in  liquid  light, 
And  he  could  hear  its  multitudinous  roar, 
Its  plunge  and  hiss  upon  the  pebbled  shore. 

1276  George  Eliot:  Legend  ofJuhcd,  Line  506. 

October. 

The  sweet  calm  sunshine  of  October,  now 
Warms  the  low  spot ;  upon  its  grassy  mould 
The  purple  oak-leaf  falls ;  the  birchen  bough 
Drops  its  bright  spoil  like  arrow-heads  of  gold. 

1277  AViLLiAM  CuLLEN  Bryant  :  October,  1866. 

October's  foliage  yellows  with  his  cold. 

1278  Ruskin:   r/ie  J/on/^.y. 

Offence. 

In  such  a  time  as  this,  it  is  not  meet 

That  every  nice  offence  should  bear  his  comment. 

1279  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 


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And  love  the  offender,  yet  detest  the  offence. 

1280  Pope:  Eloisa  to  A.,  Line  192. 

Old  Age. 

Though  I  look  old,  yet  I  am  strong  and  lusty; 
For  in  my  youth  I  never  did  apply 
Hot  and  rebellious  liquors  in  my  blood  ; 
Nor  did  not  v^ith  unbashful  forehead  woo 
The  means  of  weakness  and  debility : 
Therefore  my  age  is  as  a  lusty  winter, 
Frosty,  but  kindly. 

1281  Shaks.  :  As  You  Like  It,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  3. 

When  he  is  forsaken. 

Withered  and  shaken, 

What  can  an  old  man  do  but  die  ? 

1282  Hood:  Ballad. 

Opinion. 

Opinion  's  but  a  fool,  that  makes  us  scan 
The  outward  habit  by  the  inward  man. 

1283  Shaks.  :  Pericles,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

He  that  complies  against  his  will 
Is  of  his  own  opinion  still. 

Butler:  Hudihras,  Pt.  iii..  Canto  iii., 
1281  Line  547. 

Opportunity. 

O  Opportunity  !  thy  guilt  is  great : 
'T  is  thou  that  execut'st  the  traitor's  treason ; 
Thou  sett'st  the  wolf  where  he  the  lamb  may  get; 
Whoever  plots  the  sin,  thou  point'st  the  season; 
'T  is  thou  that  spurn'st  at  right,  at  law,  at  reason. 
1285  Shaks.:  R.  of  Lucrece,  Line  876. 


198    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Oracle. 

I  am  Sir  Oracle, 
And  when  I  ope  my  lips,  let  no  dog  bark ! 

1286  SnAKS.:  M.  of  I'enice,  Act  i.,  So.  1. 

Oratory. 

Thence  to  the  famous  orators  repair. 
Those  ancient,  whose  resistless  eloquence 
Wielded  at  will  that  fierce  democracy. 
Shook  the  Arsenal,  and  fuhnined  over  Greece, 
To  Macedon,  and  Artaxerxes'  throne. 

1287  Milton:  Par.  Regained,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  267. 

Order. 

Order  is  heav'n's  first  law;  and  this  confest, 
Some  are,  and  must  be,  greater  than  the  rest, 
More  rich,  more  wise ;  but  who  infers  from  hence 
That  such  are  happier,  shocks  all  common  sense. 

1288  Pope:  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  iv.,  Line  49. 

Ornament. 

Thus  ornament  is  but  the  guiled  shore 
To  a  most  dangerous  sea. 

1289  Shaks.  :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

Owl. 

It  was  the  owl  that  shriek'd,  the  fatal  bellman, 
Which  gives  the  stern'st  good-night. 

1290  Shaks.:  Macbeth,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

P. 

Pain. 

Pain  pays  the  income  of  each  precious  thing. 

1291  Shaks.:  /2.  o/"Zwcrece,  Line  3-34. 

Pain  is  no  longer  pain  when  it  is  past. 

Margarkt  J.  Preston:  Sonnet.   Nature's 

1292  Lesson. 


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The  sad  mechanic  exercise 
Like  dull  narcotics  numbing  pain. 

1293  Tennyson  :  In  Memoriam,  Prologue,  v.,  St.  2. 

Painter. 

With  hue  like  that  when  some  great  painter  dips 
His  pencil  in  the  gloom  of  earthquake  and  eclipse. 

1294  Shelley  :  Revolt  of  Islam,  Canto  v.,  St.  2^3. 

Palm. 

Xo  hammers  fell,  no  ponderous  axes  rung ; 
Like  some  tall  palm  the  mystic  fabric  sprung. 

1295  Heber  :  Palestine. 

Pan. 

And  they  heard  the  words  it  said, — 
"Pan  is  dead  !  great  Pan  is  dead! 
Pan,  Pan  is  dead !  " 

1296  Mrs.  Browning  :  The  Dead  Pan. 

Pang. 

And  even  the  pang  preceding  death 
Bids  expectation  rise. 
1297  Goldsmith  :   The  Captivity,  Act  ii. 

Paradise. 

'T  is  sweet,  as  year  by  year  we  lose 
Friends  out  of  sight,  in  faith  to  muse 
How  grows  in  Paradise  our  store. 

1298  Keblk:  Burial  of  the  Dead. 

Pardon. 

Forgiveness  to  the  injured  does  belong; 
But  they  ne'er  pardon  who  have  done  the  wrong. 
Dryden:   Conquest  of  Granada,  Pt.  ii., 

1299  Act  i.,  So.  2. 


200    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Parents. 

Great  families  of  yesterday  we  show, 

And  lords,  whose  parents  were  the  Lord  knows  who. 

1300  Defoe  :  True-Born  EnfjUshman,  Pt.  i.,  Line  L 

Parting. 

What !  gone  without  a  word  ? 
Ay,  so  true  love  should  do  :  it  cannot  speak  ; 
For  truth  hath  better  deeds,  than  words,  to  graee  it. 

1301  Shaks.  :   Tico  Gent,  of  V.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

They  who  go 
Feel  not  the  pain  of  parting;  it  is  they 
Who  stay  behind  that  suffer. 

1302  Longfellow:  Michael  Angela,  Pt.  I.,  1. 

Such  partings  break  the  heart  they  fondly  hope  to 
heal. 

1303  Byron:  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  i.,  St.  10. 

Passion. 

Fountain  heads  and  pathless  groves, 
Places  which  pale  passion  loves. 

John  Fletcher:  The  Nice  Valour, 

1304  Act  iii.,  Sc.  3. 

Passions  are  likened  best  to  floods  and  streams: 
The  shallow  murmur,  but  the  deep  are  dumb. 

1305  Sir  Walter  Raleigh:  Silent  Lover. 

Past,  The. 

Over  the  trackless  past,  somewhere. 
Lie  the  lost  days  of  our  tropic  youth, 
Only  regained  by  faith  and  prayer. 
Only  recalled  by  prayer  and  plaint: 
Each  lost  day  has  its  patron  saint. 

1306  Bret  Harte:   The  Lost  Galleon,  Last  St. 


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Build  thee  more  stately  mansions,  O  my  soul, 
As  the  swift  seasons  roll ! 
Leave  thy  low-vaulted  past ! 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes:  Chambered 

1307  Nautilus. 

Patience. 

How  poor  are  they,  that  have  not  patience ! 
What  wound  did  ever  heal,  but  by  degrees  ? 

1308  Shaks.  :  Othello,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  3. 

Patience,  thou  young  and  rose-lipp'd  cherubim. 

1309  Shaks.:  Othello,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  2. 

Patience  is  more  oft  the  exercise 
Of  saints,  the  trial  of  their  fortitude, 
Making  them  each  his  own  deliverer, 
And  victor  over  all 
That  tyranny  or  fortune  can  inflict. 

1310  Milton:  Samson  A gonistes,lAue  12^1. 

Patience  is  a  plant 
That  grows  not  in  all  gardens. 
■   1311  Longfellow:  J/2cAaeZ  ^4 n^e^o,  Pt.  ii.,  4. 

There  are  times  when  patience  proves  at  fault. 

1312  Robert  Browning  :  Paracelsus,  Sc.  3. 

Patriotism. 

Strike  —  for  your  altars  and  your  fires; 
Strike  —  for  the  green  graves  of  your  sires ; 
God,  and  your  native  land  ! 

1313  Fitz-Greexe  Halleck:  Marco  Bozzaris. 


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One  flag,  one  land,  one  heart,  one  hand, 
One  Nation  evermore  ! 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes:  Voyage  of 

1314  the  Good  Ship  Union. 

My  country,  't  is  of  thee, 
Sweet  land  of  liberty, — 

Of  thee  I  sing  : 
Land  where  my  fathers  died, 
Land  of  the  pilgrims'  pride, 
From  every  mountain  side 

Let  freedom  ring. 

1315  Samuel  F.  Smith  :  Nalional  Hymn. 

Sail  on,  O  Ship  of  State ! 
Sail  on,  O  Union,  strong  and  great  I 
Humanity  with  all  its  fears. 
With  all  the  hopes  of  future  years, 
Is  hanging  breathless  on  thy  fate ! 

1316  Longfellow:  Building  of  the  Ship. 

Peace. 

A  peace  is  of  the  nature  of  a  conquest; 
For  then  both  parties  nobly  are  subdued, 
And  neither  party  loser. 

1317  Shaks.:  2  Henry  IV.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  2. 

I,  in  this  weak  piping  time  of  peace, 
Have  no  delight  to  pass  away  the  time, 
Unless  to  see  my  shadow  in  the  sun. 

1318  Shaks.:  Richard  III.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Why  prate  of  peace  ?  when,  warriors  all, 
We  clank  in  harness  into  hall, 
And  ever  bare  upon  the  board 
Lies  the  necessary  sword. 

1319  Robert  Louis  Stevenson  :  The  Woodman. 


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Peace  hath  her  victories, 
No  less  renowned  than  war. 

1320  Milton:  Sonnet  xvi. 

Peace  was  on  the  earth  and  in  the  air. 

1321  William  CuLLEX  Buyant:  The  Ages, St. SO, 

Pearls. 

Go  boldly  forth,  my  simple  lay, 
Whose  accents  flow  with  artless  ease. 
Like  orient  pearls  at  random  strung. 

Sir  William  Jones:  A  Persian  Song 

1322  of  Hafiz. 

Pen. 

Beneath  the  rule  of  men  entirely  great, 
The  pen  is  mightier  than  the  sword. 

1323  Bulwer-Lyttox:  Richelieu,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

This  dull  product  of  a  scoffer's  pen. 

1324  Wordsworth:  Excursion^'Kk.  \\. 

People. 

And  what  the  people  but  a  herd  confus'd, 
A  miscellaneous  rabble,  who  extol 
Things  vulgar,  and,  well  weigh'd,  scarce  worth  the 
praise? 

1325  MiLTOx:  Par.  Regained,  Bk.  iii..  Line  19. 

Perfection. 

One  fairer  than  my  love  !  the  all-seeing  sun 
Ne'er  saw  her  match,  since  first  the  world  begun. 

1326  Shaks.  :  Rom.  and  Jul.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 


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Perjury. 

At  lovers'  perjuries, 
They  say,  Jove  laughs. 

1327  SiiAKS. :  Rom: and  Jul.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2 

Perseverance. 

Perseverance,  dear  my  lord. 
Keeps  honor  bright.     To  have  done,  is  to  hang 
Quite  out  of  fashion,  like  a  rusty  mail 
In  monumental  mockery. 

1328  Shaks.:   Troil.  and  Cress.,  Act  m.,  ^c.  ?u 

Persuasion. 

He  from  whose  lips  divine  persuasion  flows. 

1329  Pope:  Iliad,  Bk.  vii.,  Line  143. 

Petitions. 

Petition  me  no  petitions,  sir,  to-day ; 
Let  other  hours  be  set  apart  for  business. 

1330  Fielding:  Tom  Thumb  the  Great,  Act  \.,Sc.2. 

Philosophy. 

How  charming  is  divine  Philosophy  ! 

Not  harsh  and  crabbed,  as  dull  fools  suppose, 

But  musical  as  is  Apollo's  lute, 

And  a  perpetual  feast  of  nectar'd  sweets, 

Where  no  crude  surfeit  reigns. 

1331  Milton:  Co/nus,  Line  476. 

Physic. 

Throw  physic  to  the  dogs,  I  '11  none  of  it. 

1332  8HAKS. :  Macbeth,  Act  v.,  Sc.  3. 

Take  physic,  pomp ; 
Expose  thyself  to  feel  what  wretches  feel. 

1333  Shaks.:  A'm^  Ze«r,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 


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Piety. 

Why  should  not  piety  be  made, 
As  well  as  equity,  a  trade, 
And  men  get  money  by  devotion, 
As  well  as  making  of  a  motion  ? 

1334  BcTLEK  :  Misc.  Thoughts,  Line  295. 

Pilot. 

Oh  pilot,  't  is  a  fearful  night ! 
There  's  danger  on  the  deep. 

1335  Thomas  Haynes  Bayly:  The  Pilot. 

Pines. 

Risest  from  forth  thy  silent  sea  of  pines. 

1336  Coleridge  :  Hymn  in  the  Vale  of  Chamouni. 

Pipe. 

Divine  in  hookas,  glorious  in  a  pipe 

When  tipp'd  with  amber,  mellow,  rich,  and  ripe. 

1337  Byron:   The  Island,  Canto  ii.,  St.  19. 

Pity. 

Pity  is  the  virtue  of  the  law, 
And  none  but  tyrants  use  it  cruelly. 

1338  Shaks.:   Timon  of  A.,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  5. 

Careless  their  merits  or  their  faults  to  scan. 
His  pity  gave  ere  charity  began. 

1339  Goldsmith:  Des.  Village,  him  IQl. 

Place. 

The  fittest  place  where  man  can  die 
Is  where  he  dies  for  man  ! 

Michael  J.  Barry:   The  Dublin  Nation, 

1340  Sept.  28,  1S44. 


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Play. 

The  play  's  the  thing 
Wherein  I  '11  catch  the  conscience  of  the  king, 
loll  SiiAKS. :  Hamlet,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

Pleasure. 

Pleasnre,  and  revenge, 
Have  ears  more  deaf  than  addei's,  to  the  voice 
Of  any  true  decision. 

1342  Shaks.:   Troil.  and  Cress.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

But  not  e'en  pleasure  to  excess  is  good  : 
What  most  elates,  then  sinks  the  soul  as  low. 

Thomson  :   Castle  of  Indolence,  Canto  i., 

1343  St.  63. 

Pleasure  must  succeed  to  pleasure,  else  past  pleasure 
turns  to  pain. 

1344  Robert  Browning  :  La  Saisiaz,  Line  170. 

But  pleasures  are  like  poppies  spread, 
You  seize  the  flower,  its  bloom  is  shed. 

1345  Burns:   Tam  o'  Shanter. 

Softly  sweet,  in  Lydian  measures. 
Soon  he  sooth'd  his  soul  to  pleasures. 

1346  Dryden:  Alex.  Feast,  Line  97. 

Poetry  —  Poets. 

It  is  not  poetry  that  makes  men  poor; 
For  few  do  write  that  were  not  so  before. 

1347  Butler  :  Misc.  Thoughts,  Line  441. 

A  verse  may  find  him  who  a  sermon  flies, 
And  turn  delight  into  a  sacrifice. 

1348  Herbert  :   Temple,  Church  Porch,  St.  1. 


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Poets  are  all  who  love,  who  feel  great  truths, 
And  tell  them;  and  the  truth  of  truths  is  love. 
Bailey  :   Fe.stus,  Sc.  Another  and  a  Better 

1349  World. 

The  poor  poet 
Worships  without  reward,  nor  hopes  to  find 
A  heaven  save  in  his  worship). 

1350  George  Eliot  :  Spanish  Gypsy,  Bk.  i. 

God  is  the  Perfect  Poet, 
Who  in  creation  acts  his  own  conceptions. 

1351  Robert  Browning  :  Paracelsus,  Sc.  2. 

Sweet  are  the  pleasures  that  to  verse  belong, 
And  doubly  sweet  a  brotherhood  in  song. 

1352  Keats  :  Epis.  to  George  Felton  Mathews. 

Blessings  be  with  them,  and  eternal  praise, 
Who  gave  us  nobler  loves  and  nobler  cares.  — 
The  poets  who  on  earth  have  made  us  heirs 
Of  truth  and  pure  delight,  by  heavenly  lays. 

1353  Wordsworth  :  Personal  Talk. 

Pole. 

True  as  the  needle  to  the  pole, 
Or  as  the  dial  to  the  sun. 

1354  Barton  Booth:  Song. 

Pomp. 

Give  lettered  pomp  to  teeth  of  Time, 

So  '•  Bonnie  Doon  "  but  tarry; 
Blot  out  the  epic's  stately  rhyme, 

But  spare  his  "  Highland  Mary  "  ! 

1355  Whittier  :  Lines  on  Burns 


20(S    DICTIOXARY  OF   POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Poppies. 

As  full-blown  poppies,  overcharg'd  with  rain, 
Decline  the  head,  and  drooping  kiss  the  plain, — 
So  sinks  the  youth. 

1356  Pope  :  Iliad,  Bk.  viii.,  Line  371. 

Popularity. 

O,  he  sits  high  in  all  the  people's  hearts : 
And  that,  which  would  appear  oifence  in  us, 
His  countenance,  like  richest  alchymy, 
Will  change  to  virtue  and  to  worthiness. 

1357  Shaks.  :  Jul.  C<xsar,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

Bareheaded,  popularly  low  he  bow'd. 
And  paid  the  salutations  of  the  crowd. 

Dryden  :  Palamon  and  Arcite,  Bk.  iii., 

1358  Line  689. 

Possession. 

What  we  have  w^e  prize  not  to  the  Avorth, 
Whiles  we  enjoy  it ;  but  being  lacked  and  lost, 
AVhy  then  we  rack  the  value,  then  we  find 
The  virtue  that  possession  would  not  show  us 
Whiles  it  was  ours. 

1359  Shaks.  :  Much  Ado,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

Possession  means  to  sit  astride  of  the  world, 
Instead  of  having  it  astride  of  you. 

Charles  Kingsley:  Saint's  Tragedy, 

1360  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

Poverty. 

My  poverty,  but  not  my  will,  consents. 

loGl  Shaks.  :  Rotn.  and  Jul.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 


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If  we  from  wealth  to  poverty  descend, 

Want  gives  to  know  the  flatterer  from  the  friend. 

1362  Dryden  :    Wife  of  Bath,  Line  485. 

Most  wretched  men 
Are  cradled  into  poetry  by  wrong. 
They  learn  in  suffering  what  they  teach  in  song. 

1363  Shelley  :  Julian  and  Maddalo. 

In  ev'ry  sorrowing  soul  I  pour'd  delight, 
And  poverty  stood  smiling  in  my  sight. 

1364  Pope  :   Odyssey^  Bk.  xvii.,  Line  505. 

PoTver. 

What  can  power  give  more  than  food  and  drink, 
To  live  at  ease,  and  not  be  bound  to  think? 

1365  Dryden  :  Medal,  Line  235. 

The  good  old  rule 
Sufficeth  them,  the  simple  plan, 
That  they  should  take  who  have  the  power, 
And  they  should  keep  who  can. 

1366  Wordsworth  :  Roh  Roy'^s  Grave. 

Prairie. 

Far  in  the  East  like  low-hung  clouds 

The  waving  woodlands  lie  ; 
Far  in  the  West  the  glowing  plain 

Melts  warmly  in  the  sky. 
Xo  accent  wounds  the  reverent  air,  — 

No  footprint  dints  the  sod, — 
Low  in  the  light  the  praiiie  lies 

Rapt  in  a  dream  of  God. 

1367  John  Hay  :   The  Praine. 


210    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Praise. 

Praising  what  is  lost, 
Makes  the  remenibrance  dear. 
1308  SuAKs. :  All  '*•  Well,  Act  v.,  Sc.  3. 

Damn  with  faint  praise,  assent  with  civil  leer, 
And  without  sneering  teach  the  rest  to  sneer. 

1369  Pope  :  Prologue  to  the  Satires,  Line  201. 

Prayer. 

Let  never  day  nor  night  unhallow'd  pass, 
But  still  remember  what  the  Lord  hath  done. 

1370  Shaks.  :  2  Heriry  VI.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

If  b}^  prayer 
Incessant  I  could  hope  to  change  the  will 
Of  him  who  all  things  can,  I  would  not  cease 
To  weary  him  with  my  assiduous  cries  ; 
But  prayer  against  his  absolute  decree 
No  more  avails  than  breath  against  the  wind 
Blown  stifling  back  on  him  that  breathes  it  forth  : 
Therefore  to  his  great  bidding  I  submit. 

1371  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  xi.,  Line  307. 

He  prayeth  best  who  loveth  best 
All  things  both  great  and  small; 
For  the  dear  God  who  loveth  us, 
He  made  and  loveth  all. 

1372  Coleridge:  Ancient  Mariner,  Vi.  v'\\. 


God  answers  sharp  and  sudden  on  some  prayers, 
And  thrusts  the  thing  we  have  prayed  for  in  our 

face, 
A  gauntlet  with  a  gift  in  't. 
1373  Mks.  Browning  :  Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  ii. 


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More  things  are  wrought  by  prayer 
Than  this  world  dreams  of. 

1374  Tennysox:  Morte  d' Arthur,  Line  247. 

Preaching. 

I  preached  as  never  sure  to  preach  again, 
And  as  a  dying  man  to  dying  men. 

Richard  Baxter  :  Love  Breathing 

1375  Thanks  and  Praise. 

Present. 

The  Present,  the  Present  is  all  thou  hast 
For  thy  sure  possessing ; 
Like  the  patriarch's  angel  hold  it  fast 
Till  it  gives  its  blessing. 

1376  AVhittier  :  My  Soul  and  I,  St.  34. 

Press. 

Here  shall  the  Press  the  People's  right  maintain, 
Unaw'd  by  influence  and  unbrib'd  by  gain. 

Joseph  Story  :  Motto  of  the  "  Salem 

1377  Register:' 

Pride. 

Pride  hath  no  other  glass 
To  show  itself,  but  pride ;  for  supple  knees 
Feed  arrogance,  and  are  the  proud  man's  fees. 

1378  Shaks.  :  Troll,  and  Cress.,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  3. 

And  the  Devil  did  grin,  for  his  darling  sin 
Is  pride  that  apes  humility. 

1379  Coleridge  :   The  DeviVs  Thoughts. 

Priest. 

No  nightly  trance  or  breathed  spell 

Inspires  the  pale-eyed  priest  from  the  prophetic  cell. 

1380  Milton  :  Hymn  on  Christ's  Nativity,  Line  173. 


212    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Primrose. 

A  primrose  by  a  river's  brim 
A  yellow  primrose  was  to  him, 
And  it  was  nothing  more. 

1381  Wordsworth  :  Peter  Bell,  Pt.  1.,  St.  12. 

Printing. 

Blest  be  the  gracious  Powder,  who  taught  mankind 
To  stamp  a  lasting  image  of  the  mind ! 

1382  Crabbe  :    The  Library,  Line  69. 

Some  said,  "John,  print  it" ;  others  said,  "Not  so." 
Some  said,  "It  might  do  good";  others  said,  "No." 
Bunyan:  Pilgrim'' s  Progress,  Apology  for 

1383  his  Book. 

Prison. 

Stone  walls  do  not  a  prison  make, 

Nor  iron  bars  a  cage; 

Minds  innocent  and  quiet,  take 

That  for  an  hermitage. 

1381  Lovelace:   To  A Ithea,  from  Prison,  iv. 

Procrastination. 

Procrastination  is  the  thief  of  time: 
Year  after  year  it  steals,  till  all  are  fled, 
And  to  the  mercies  of  a  moment  leaves 
The  vast  concerns  of  an  eternal  scene. 

1385  Young  :  Night  Thoughts,  Night  i.,  Line  393. 

Prodigies. 

When  these  prodigies 
Do  so  conjointly  meet,  let  not  men  say 
"These  are  their  reasons,  — They  are  natural;" 
For,  I  believe,  they  are  portentous  things 
Unto  the  climate  that  they  point  upon. 

1386  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 


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Progress. 

Yet  1  doubt  not  thro'  the  ages  one  increasing  pur- 
pose runs, 

And  the  thoughts  of  men  are  widen 'd  with  the 
process  of  the  suns. 

1387  Tennyson:  Locksley  Hall,  St.  69. 

Promise. 

And  be  these  juggling  fiends  no  more  believ'd, 
That  palter  with  us  in  a  double  sense  : 
That  keep  the  word  of  promise  to  our  ear 
And  break  it  to  our  hope. 

1388  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  v.,  So.  8. 

Proof. 

Give  me  the  ocular  proof ; 

Make  me  to  see  't ;  or,  at  the  least,  so  prove  it, 
That  the  probation  bear  no  hinge,  nor  loop. 
To  hang  a  doubt  on. 

1389  Shaks.:  Othello,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  3. 

Prophecy. 

.    Coming  events  cast  their  shadows  before. 

1390  Campbell  :  LochieVs  Warning. 

Be  thou  the  rainbow  to  the  storms  of  life. 
The  evening  beam  that  smiles  the  cloud  away, 
And  tints  to-morrow  with  prophetic  ray ! 

1391  Byron:  Bride  of  Ah.,  Canto  ii.,  St.  20. 

Prose. 

And  he  whose  fustian  's  so  sublimely  bad, 
It  is  not  poetry,  but  prose  run  mad. 

1392  Pope  :  Prol.  to  Satires,  Line  186. 


214    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

And  Sidney,  warbler  of  poetic  prose. 

1393  CowPER  :   Task;  Bk.  iv.,  Line  514. 

Proselytes. 

'i'he  greatest  saints  and  sinners  have  been  made 
Of  proselytes  of  one  another's  trade. 

1394  Butler  :  Alisc.  Thoughts,  Line  315. 

Prospects. 

As  distant  prospects  please  us,  but  when  near 
We  find  but  desert  rocks  and  fleeting  air. 

Samuel  Gartii  :  Dispensatory,  Canto  iii., 

1395  Line  27. 

Prosperity. 

Prosperity  's  the  very  bond  of  love ; 

Whose  fresh  complexion,  and  whose  heart  together 

Affliction  alters. 

1396  Shaks.  :  Wint.  Tale,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

Snrer  to  prosper  than  prosperity 
Could  have  assured  us. 

1397  Milton:  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  39. 

Providence. 

There 's  a  special  providence  in  the  fall  of  a  sparrow. 

1398  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  v.,  Sc.  2. 


What  in  me  is  dark 
Illumine,  what  is  low  laise  and  support; 
That,  to  the  height  of  this  great  argument, 
I  may  assert  Eternal  Providence 
And  justify  the  ways  of  God  to  men. 
1399  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  i.,  Line  22. 


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AVho  finds  not  Providence  all  good  and  wise, 
Alike  in  what  it  gives,  and  what  denies? 

1400  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  i.  Line  205. 

'T  is  Providence  alone  secures 

In  every  change  both  mine  and  yours. 

1101  CowPER :  A  Fahle.     Moral. 

Prudence. 

Henceforth  His  might  we  know,  and  know  our  own, 
So  as  not  either  to  provoke,  or  dread 
Xew  war,  provoked. 

1102  :Miltox:  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  L,  Line  643. 

"Where  passion  leads  or  prudence  points  the  way. 

1103  Robert  Lowth  :   Choice  of  Hercules,  i. 

Prudery. 

Yon  ancient  prude,  whose  wither'd  features  show 

She  might  be  young  some  forty  years  ago, 

Her  elbows  pinion'd  close  upon  her  hips, 

Her  head  erect,  her  fan  upon  her  lips, 

Her  eyebrows  arch'd,  her  eyes  both  gone  astray 

To  watch  yon  amorous  couple  in  their  play, 

"With  bony  and  unkerchief'd  neck  defies 

The  rude  inclemency  of  wintry  skies, 

And  sails,  with  lappet-head  and  mincing  airs, 

Duly  at  chink  of  bell  to  morning  prayers. 

1101  CowPER  :    Truth,  Line  13. 

Pulpit. 

And  pulpit,  drum  ecclesiastick, 
"Was  beat  with  fist  instead  of  a  stick. 

1105        Butler  :  Hudibras,  Pt.  i..  Canto  i..  Line  11. 


216    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Punishment. 

Back  to  thy  punishment, 
False  fugitive,  and  to  thy  speed  add  wings. 

1406  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  699. 

Purity. 

'T  is  said  the  lion  will  turn  and  flee 
From  a  maid  in  the  pride  of  her  purity. 

1407  Bykon  :  Siege  of  Corinth,  St.  21. 

Purpose. 

]\lake  thick  my  blood, 
Stop  up  the  access  and  passage  to  remorse; 
That  no  compunctious  visitings  of  nature 
Shake  my  fell  purpose. 

1408  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  i.,  Sc.  5. 

Purse. 

Who  steals  my  purse  steals  trash ;  't  is  something, 
nothing; 

'T  was  mine,  't  is  his,  and  has  been  slave  to  thou- 
sands. 

1409  Shaks.  :  Othello,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  3. 

Pygmies. 

Pygmies  are  pygmies  still,  though  percht  on  Alps ; 
And  pyramids  are  pyramids  in  vales. 

1410  Young  :  Night  Thoughts,  Night  vi.,  Line  309. 

Q- 

Quacks. 

Out,  you  impostors  ! 
Quack-salving  cheating  mountebanks  !  —  your  "skill 
Is  to  make  sound  men  sick,  and  sick  men  kill. 

1411  Massinger  :  Virgin-Martyr,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 


DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.    217 

Void  of  all  honor,  avaricious,  rash, 

The  daring  tribe  compound  their  boasted  trash  — 

Tincture  of  syrup,  lotion,  drop,  or  pill : 

All  tempt  the  sick  to  trust  the  lying  bill. 

1412  Crabbe  :  Borough,  Letter  vii.,  Line  75. 

Quakers. 

Upright  Quakers  please  both  man  and  God. 

1413  Pope  :  Dunciad,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  208. 

The  Quaker  loves  an  ample  brim, 

A  hat  that  bows  to  no  salaam ; 
And  dear  the  beaver  is  to  him 

As  if  it  never  made  a  dam. 

1414  Hood  :  All  Round  my  Hat. 

Quarrels. 

Beware 
Of  entrance  to  a  quarrel :  but,  being  in. 
Bear  't  that  the  opposed  may  beware  of  thee. 

1415  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

They  who  in  quarrels  interpose, 
Must  often  wipe  a  bloody  nose. 

1416  Gay:  Fables,  Ft.  i.,  Fable  34. 

Queen. 

She  moves  a  goddess,  and  she  looks  a  queen. 

1417  Pope  :  Iliad,  Bk.  iii.,  Line  208. 

Quickness. 

With  too  much  quickness  ever  to  be  taught ; 
With  too  much  thinking  to  have  common  thought. 

1418  Pope  :  Moral  Essays,  Epis.  ii.,  Line  97. 


218    DICTIOXARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Quiet. 

Quiet  to  quick  bosoms  is  a  hell. 

1419  Bykon  :   Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iii.,  St.  42. 

Safe  in  the  hallowed  quiets  of  the  past. 

1420  James  Russell  Lowell  :   Jlie  Cathedral. 

Quips. 

Quips  and  Cranks  and  wanton  Wiles, 
Nods  and  Becks  and  wreathed  Smiles. 

1421  Milton  :  L'Allegro,  Line  25. 

Quotation. 

The  devil  can  cite  scrij^ture  for  his  purpose. 

1422  Shaks.  :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

Nor  suffers  Horace  more  in  wrong  translations 
By  wits,  than  critics  in  as  wrong  quotations. 

1423  Pope  :  E.  on  Criticism,  Ft.  iii.,  Line  103. 


Race. 

He  lives  to  build,  not  boast,  a  generous  race; 
No  tenth  transmitter  of  a  foolish  face. 

1424  IvicnARD  Savage  :   The  Bastard,  Line  7. 

Rage. 

Could  swell  the  soul  to  rage,  or  kindle  soft  desire. 

1425  Dryden  :  Alex.  Feast,  Line  IGO. 

Rain. 

For  the  rain  it  raineth  every  day. 

1426  Shaks.  :   Tw.  Night,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 


DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.    219 

How  beautiful  is  the  rain ! 

After  the  dust  and  heat, 

In  the  broad  and  tiery  street, 

Jn  the  narrow-  lane, 

How  beautiful  is  the  rain ! 

1^27      Longfellow  :  Rain  in  Summer,  Sts.  1  and  2. 

The  rain  comes  when  the  wind  calls. 

1428  Emerson:   Woodnoles,  Pt.  ii.,  Line  27L 

In  winter,  when  the  dismal  rain 

Came  down  in  slanting  lines. 
1129         Alexander  '^^iityl:  A  Life  Drama,^c.2. 

Rainbow. 

Hail,  many-colored  messenger,  that  ne'er 

Dost  disobey  the  wife  of  Jupiter; 

Who,  with  thy  saffron  wings,  upon  my  flowers 

Diffusest  honey-drops,  refreshing  showers  ; 

And  with  each  end  of  thy  blue  bow  dost  crown 

^My  bosky  acres,  and  my  unshrubb'd  down. 

Rich  scarf  to  my  proud  earth. 

1133  Shaks.  :    Tempest,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

That  gracious  thing  made  up  of  tears  and  light. 

1131  Coleridge  :   Two  Founts,  St.  5. 

The  rainbow  comes  and  goes, 
And  lovely  is  the  rose. 

Wordsworth:  Intimations  of  Immortal  it  i^, 

1132  St.  2. 

There  was  an  awful  rainbow  once  in  heaven: 
We  know  her  woof,  her  texture  ;  she  is  given 
In  the  dull  catalogue  of  common  things. 
Philosophy  will  clip  an  angel's  wings. 

1133  Keats  :  Lamia,  Pt.  ii. 


220    DICTIOXARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Rank. 

Superior  worth  your  rank  requires  : 
For  that,  mankind  reveres  your  sires; 
If  you  degenerate  from  your  race, 
Their  merits  heighten  your  disgrace. 

1434  Gay  :  Fables,  Pt.  ii.,  Fable  11. 

The  rank  is  but  the  guinea  stamp. 
The  man  's  the  gowd  for  a'  that. 

1435  Burns  :  For  a'  That  and  a'  That. 

Raptures. 

If  such  there  breathe,  go,  mark  him  well  I 
For  him  no  minstrel  raptures  swell. 

Scott  :  Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  Canto  vi., 

1436  St.  1. 

Rashness. 

Where  men  of  judgment  creep  and  feel  their  way, 
The  positive  pronounce  without  dismay. 

1437  CowPER  :   Conversation,  Line  145. 

One  more  unfortunate 

Weary  of  breath. 
Rashly  importunate. 

Gone  to  her  death. 

1438  Hood:   The  Bridge  of  Sighs. 

Reading. 

Many  books. 
Wise  men  have  said,  are  wearisome  ;  who  reads 
Incessantly,  and  to  his  reading  brings  not 
A  spirit  and  judgment  equal  or  superior. 
Uncertain  and  unsettled  still  remains  — 
Deep  versed  in  books,  and  shallow  in  himself. 

1439  Milton  :  Par.  Regained,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  321. 


DICTIOXARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.    221 

When  the  last  reader  reads  no  more. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes:   The  Last 
\U0  Reader. 

Stuff  the  head 
With  all  such  reading  as  was  never  read : 
For  thee  explain  a  thing  till  all  men  doubt  it. 
U41  Pope:  Dunclad,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  249. 

Realms. 

These  are  our  realms,  no  limit  to  their  sway,  — 
Our  flag  the  sceptre  all  who  meet  obey. 

1442  Byrox:  Corsair,  Canto  i.,  St.  1. 

Reason. 

1  have  no  other  but  a  woman's  reason; 
I  think  him  so,  because  I  think  him  so. 

1443  Shaks.  :   Two  Gent,  of  V.,  Act  i.,  So.  2. 

Reason  raise  o'er  instinct  as  you  can, 

In  this  't  is  God  directs,  in  that  't  is  man. 

1444  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  iii.,  Line  97. 

I  would  make 
Reason  my  guide. 

William  Cullen  Bryant  :  Conjunction 

1445  of  Jupiter  and  Venus. 

The  confidence  of  reason  give, 

And  in  the  light  of  truth  thy  bondman  let  me  live  ! 

1446  Wordsworth  :  Ode  to  Duty. 

Indu'd 
With  sanctity  of  reason. 

1447  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  vii.,  Line  507. 


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Rebellion. 

Their  weapons  only 
Seem'd  on  our  side,  but,  for  tiieir  spirits  and  souls, 
This  word,  rebellion,  it  had  froze  them  up. 
As  fish  are  in  a  pond. 

1448  SuAKS. :  2  Henry  IV.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Rebellion  now  began,  for  lack 

Of  zeal  and  plunder,  to  grow  slack. 

BuTLKR  :   Jludihras,  Pt.  iii..  Canto  ii., 

1449  Lineal. 

Rebuff. 

Then  welcome  each  rebuff 
That  turns  earth's  smoothness  rough, 
Each  sting  that  bids  nor  sit  nor  stand,  but  go  ! 

1450  Robert  Browning:  Rabbi  Ben  Ezra. 

Rebuke. 

Forbear  sharp  speeches  to  her  ;  She  's  a  lady 
So  tender  of  rebukes,  that  words  are  strokes, 
And  strokes  deatli  to  her. 

1451  Shaks.  :   Cymbeline,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  5. 

Reckoning. 

So  comes  a  reck'ning  when  the  banquet  's  o'er. 
The  dreadful  reck'ning,  and  men  smile  no  more. 

1452  Gay  :    What  D'  ye  Call  It,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  9. 

Recollection. 

How  dear  to  my  heart  are  the  scenes  of  my  child- 
hood, 
When  fond  recollection  presents  them  to  view. 

1453  Wordsworth  :  The  Old  Oaken  Bucket, 


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Reconciliation. 

Never  can  true  reconcilement  grow, 

Where  wounds  of  deadly  hate  have  pierc'd  so  deep. 

1454  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  98. 

Records. 

In  records  that  defy  the  tooth  of  time. 

1455  Young  :    The  Statesman's  Creed. 

Recreation. 

Sweet  recreation  barred,  what  doth  ensue 
But  moody  and  dull  melancholy. 
Kinsman  to  grim  and  comfortless  despair, 
And,  at  her  heels,  a  huge  infectious  troop 
Of  pale  distemperatures,  and  foes  to  life  ? 

1456  Shaks.  :  Com.  of  Errors,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Of  recreation  there  is  none 
So  free  as  Fishing  is  alone  ; 
All  other  pastimes  do  no  less 
Than  mind  and  body  both  possess : 

My  hand  alone  my  work  can  do, 

So  I  can  fish  and  study  too. 

IzAAK  Walton  :   The  Complete  Angler. 

1457  The  Anglers  Song. 

Redress. 

What  need  we  any  spur  but  our  own  cause 
To  prick  us  to  redress. 

1458  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Reflection. 

Remembrance  and  reflection  how  allied! 

What  thin  partitions  sense  from  thought  divide ! 

1459  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  i.,  Line  225. 


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Reformation. 

'T  is  the  talent  of  our  English  nation, 
Still  to  be  plotting  some  new  Reformation. 

14G0  Dryden  :  Sophonisba,  Prologue. 

Regret. 

O  last  regret,  regret  can  die ! 

1461  Tennyson  :  In  Memoriam,  Ixxviii.,  St.  5. 

Deep  as  first  love,  and  wild  with  all  regret. 
Oh  death  in  life,  the  days  that  are  no  more  ! 

U62         Tennyson  :  The  Princess,  Pt.  iv.,  Line  36. 

Religion. 

In  Religion 
What  damned  error,  but  some  sober  Ijrow 
Will  bless  it,  and  approve  it  with  a  text. 
Hiding  the  grossness  with  fair  ornament. 

1463  Shaks.  :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

Religion  is  a  spring, 
That  from  some  secret,  golden  mine 
Derives  her  birth,  and  thence  doth  bring 
Cordials  in  every  drop,  and  wine. 

1464  Henry  Vaughan:  Religion. 

Religion  crowns  the  statesman  and  the  man, 
Sole  source  of  public  and  of  private  peace. 

Young:  Public  Situation  of  the  Kingdom, 

1465  Line  500. 

Pity  Religion  has  so  seldom  found 
A  skilful  guide  into  poetic  ground  ! 

1466  CowPER  :   Table  Talk,  Line  17. 


Religion  stands  on  tiptoe  in  our  land, 
Ready  to  pass  to  the  American  strand. 

1467  Herbert:   The  Church  Militant. 

Remedies. 

Our  remedies  oft  in  ourselves  do  lie, 
Which  we  ascribe  to  Heaven;  the  fated  sky 
Gives  us  free  scope;  only,  doth  backward  pull 
Our  slow  designs,  when  we  ourselves  are  dull. 

1468  Shaks.  :  All 's  Well,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Remembrance. 

The  setting  sun,  and  music  at  the  close, 

As  the  last  taste  of  sweets,  is  sweetest  last. 

Writ  in  remembrance  more  than  things  long  past. 

1469  SiiAKS. :  Richard  II.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Praising  what  is  lost. 
Makes  the  remembrance  dear. 

1470  Shaks.  :  All's  Well,  Act  v.,  Sc.  3. 

I  've  been  so  long  remembered,  I  'm  forgot. 

1471  Young  :  Night  Thoughts,  Night  iv.,  Line  57. 

T  remember,  I  remember. 

The  fir  trees  dark  and  high  : 

I  used  to  think  their  slender  tops 

Were  close  against  the  sky  ; 

It  was  a  childish  ignorance. 

But  now  't  is  little  joy 

To  know  I  'm  farther  oif  from  heaven 

Than  when  I  was  a  boy. 

1472  Hood  :  /  Remember,  I  Remember. 


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Remorse. 

Remorse  is  as  the  heart  in  which  it  grows, 

If  that  be  gentle,  it  drops  balmy  dews 

Of  true  repentance  ;  but  if  proud  and  gloomy, 

It  is  the  poison  tree  that,  pierced  to  tlie  inmost, 

Weeps  only  tears  of  poison. 

1473  Coleuidge:  llemorae,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Renown. 

IShort  is  niy  date,  but  deathless  my  renown. 

1471:  Pope  :  Iliad,  Bk.  ix.,  Line  535. 

Repartee. 

A  man  renown'd  for  repartee 
Will  seldom  scruple  to  make  free 
AVith  friendship's  finest  feeling, 
AVill  thrust  a  dagger  at  your  breast, 
And  say  he  wounded  you  in  jest. 
By  way  of  balm  for  healing. 

1475  CowPEii :  Friendship,  Line  16. 

Repentance. 

VVlio  by  repentance  is  not  satisfied 

Is  nor  of  heaven  nor  earth  ;  for  these  are  pleased  ; 

By  penitence  the  Eternal's  wrath  's  appeased. 

1476  SiiAKS. :   Two  Gent,  of  V.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  4. 

Illusion  is  brief,  but  Repentance  is  long! 

1477  Schiller  :  Lmj  of  the  Bell,  St.  4. 

Repentance  is  the  w^eight 
C)f  indigested  meals  eat  yesterday. 

1478  George  Eliot  :  Spanish  Gypsy,  Bk.  ii. 

Amid  the  roses  fierce  Repentance  rears 
Her  snaky  crest. 

1479  Thomson:  Seasons,  Spring,  Line  996. 


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Repose. 

The  best  of  men  have  ever  loved  repose : 
They  hate  to  mingle  in  the  filthy  fray, 
"Where  the  .>oul  soars,  and  gradual  rancor  grows, 
Imbitter'd  more  from  peevish  day  to  day. 

Thomson  ;   Castle  of  Indolence,  Canto  i., 
1480  St.  17. 

Her  suffering  ended  with  the  day, 

Yet  lived  she  at  its  close, 
And  breathed  the  long,  long  night  away, 

In  statue-like  repose. 
IISI  James  Aldrich:  A  Death-Bed. 

Reproof. 

Fear  not  the  anger  of  the  wise  to  raise ; 
Those  best  can  bear  reproof  who  merit  praise. 

1482  Pope  :  E.  on  Criticism,  Pt.  iii.,  Line  23. 

Reproof  on  her  lips,  but  a  smile  in  her  eye. 

1483  Lover  :  Rory  O'More. 

Reputation. 

The  purest  treasure  mortal  times  afford, 

Is  spotless  reputation  ;  that  away, 

^len  are  but  gilded  loam,  or  painted  clay. 

1484  Shaks.  :  Richard  IL,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

At  every  word  a  reputation  dies. 

148.5        Pope:  it.  of  the  Lock,  Canto  iii.,  Line  16. 

Resignation. 

But  Heaven  hath  a  hand  in  these  events ; 

To  whose  high  will  we  bound  our  calm  contents. 

1486  Shaks.:  Richard  IL,  Act  v.,  Sc.  2. 


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While  Resignation  gently  slopes  away, 

And  all  his  prospects  brightening  to  the  last, 

His  heaven  commences  ere  the  world  he  ])ast. 

1487  Goldsmith  :  Des.  Village,  i.ine  110. 

Resolution. 

The  native  hue  of  resolution 
Is  sicklied  o'er  with  the  pale  cast  of  tliought; 
And  enterprises  of  great  pith  and  moment, 
AVith  this  regard,  their  currents  turn  awry, 
And  lose  the  name  of  action. 

1488  Shaks.:  Hamlet,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

Respect. 

You  have  too  much  respect  upon  the  world: 
They  lose  it,  that  do  buy  it  with  much  care. 

1489  Shaks.  :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Rest. 

AVho  with  a  body  filled  and  vacant  mind 

Gets  him  to  rest,  crammed  witli  distressful  bread. 

1490  Shaks.  :  Henry  V.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

Rest  is  sweet  after  strife. 

Owen  Meredith  :  Lucile,  Pt.  i.,  Canto  vi., 

1491  St.  25. 

For  too  much  rest  itself  becomes  a  pain. 

1492  Pope  :  Odyssey,  Bk.  xv..  Line  429. 

Results. 

Who  soweth  good  seed  shall  surely  reap ; 
The  year  grows  rich  as  it  groweth  old ; 
And  life's  latest  sands  are  its  sands  of  gold. 

1493  Julia  C.  R.  Dorr  :  To  the  Bouquet  Club. 


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Retirement. 

Retiring-  from  the  popular  noise,  I  seek 
Tliis  unfrequented  [»lace  to  find  some  ease. 

1494  Milton  :  Samson  Agoniaies,  Line  16. 

O  blest  retirement,  friend  to  life's  decline, 
Retreats  from  care  that  never  must  be  mine, 
How  happy  he  who  crowns,  in  shades  like  these, 
A  youth  of  labor,  with  an  age  of  ease; 
Who  quits  a  world  where  strong  temptations  try, 
And,  since  't  is  hard  to  combat,  learns  to  fly. 

1495  Goldsmith:  Des.  Village,  Line  97. 

Retreat. 

In  all  the  trade  of  war,  no  feat 
Is  nobler  than  a  brave  retreat ; 
For  those  that  run  away,  and  fly. 
Take  place  at  least  of  the  enemy. 

1496  Butler  :  Hudihras,  Ft.  i..  Canto  iii.,  Line  607. 

Revelry. 

Midnight  shout  and  revelry. 
Tipsy  dance  and  jollity. 

1497  Milton  :   Camus,  Line  103. 

There  was  a  sound  of  revelry  by  night. 

And  Belgium's  capital  had  gather'd  then 

Her  beauty  and  her  chivalry,  and  bright 

The  lamps  shone  o'er  fair  women  and  brave  men. 

1498  Byron  :   Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iii.,  St.  21. 

Revenge. 

And  C?esar's  spirit,  ranging  for  revenge, 
With  Ate  by  his  side,  come  hot  from  hell, 
Shall  in  these  confines,  with  a  monarch's  voice. 
Cry  "Havock,"  and  let  slip  the  dogs  of  war. 

1499  Shaks.  :  .Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 


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Revenge,  at  first  though  sweet, 
Bitter  ere  long,  back  on  itself  recoils. 

1500  Milton:  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ix.,  Line  171. 

Vengeance  to  God  alone  belongs ; 
But,  when  I  think  of  all  my  wrongs. 
My  blood  is  liquid  flame. 

1501  Scott  :  Mannion,  Canto  vi.,  St.  7. 

Reverence. 

Let  the  air  strike  our  tune, 
Whilst  we  show  reverence  to  yond  peeping  moon. 

1502  MiDDLETON  :   T/ia  Witch,  Act  v.,  Sc.  2. 

Revolution. 

There  is  great  talk  of  revolution, 
And  a  great  chance  of  despotism, 
German  soldiers,  camps,  confusion. 
Tumults,  lotteries,  rage,  delusion. 
Gin,  suicide,  and  Methodism. 

1503  Shelley  :  Peter  Bell  the  Third,  Hell,  St.  6. 

Rhetoric. 

For  Rhetoric,  he  could  not  ope 

His  mouth,  but  out  there  flew  a  trope. 

1504  Butler  :  Hudihras,  Pt.  i..  Canto  i.,  Line  8. 

Enjoy  your  dear  wit  and  gay  rhetoric. 

That  hath  so  well  been  taught  her  dazzling  fence. 

1505  Milton:   Comus,  Line  790. 

Rhine. 

The  castled  crag  of  Drachenfels 

Fro\vns  o'er  the  wide  and  winding  Rhine. 

1506  Byron  :  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iii.,  St.  55. 


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The  river  Rhine,  it  is  well  known, 
Doth  wash  your  city  of  Cologne; 
But  tell  me,  nymphs!  what  power  divine 
Shall  henceforth  wash  the  river  Rhine? 

1507  Coleridge  :  Cologne. 

Rhyme. 

Still  may  syllables  jar  with  time. 
Still  may  reason  war  with  rhyme. 

1508  Ben  Jonson  :  Fit  of  Rhyme  against  Rhyme. 

He  knew 
Himself  to  sing,  and  build  the  lofty  rhyme. 

1509  Milton  :  Lyci'kis,  Line  10. 

For  rhyme  the  rudder  is  of  verses, 

With  which,  like  ships,  they  steer  their  courses. 

1510  Butler  :  Hudihras,  Ft.  i..  Canto  i..  Line  463. 

Riches. 

Infinite  riches  in  a  little  room. 

1511  Marlowe:   The  Jew  of  Malta,  Act  i. 

Extol  not  riches  then,  the  toil  of  fools, 

The  wise  man's  cumbrance,  if  not  snare;  more  apt 

To  slacken  virtue,  and  abate  her  edge. 

Than  prompt  her  to  do  aught  may  merit  praise. 

1512  Milton  :  Par.  Regained,  Bk.  ii..  Line  453. 

Ridicule. 

Ridicule  is  a  weak  weapon,  when  levelled  at  a  strong 

mind  ; 
But  common  men  are  cowards,  and  dread  an  empty 

laugh. 

1513  Tupper:  Proverbial  Phil.,  Of  Ridicule. 


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Sacred  to  ridicule  his  whole  life  long, 
And  the  sad  burden  of  some  merry  song. 

1514  Pope  :  Satire  i.,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  76. 

Right. 

But  't  was  a  maxim  he  had  often  tried, 
That  right  was  riglit,  and  there  he  would  abide. 
Crabbe:  Tales:  Tale  xv.,  The  Squire  and 

1515  the  Priest. 

For  right  is  right,  since  God  is  God, 

And  right  the  day  must  win  ; 
To  doubt  would  be  disloyalty. 

To  falter  would  be  sin. 

Frederick  W.  Faber  :   The  Right  Must 

1516  Win. 

And  spite  of  pride,  in  erring  reason's  spite, 
One  truth  is  clear,  Whatever  is,  is  right. 

1517  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  i.,  Line  289. 

Rivers. 

By  shallow  rivers,  to  whose  falls 
Melodious  birds  sing  madrigals. 

Marlowe  :   The  Passionate  Shepherd  to 

1518  His  Love. 

See  the  rivers,  how  they  run. 
Changeless  to  the  changeless  sea. 

Charles  Kingsley:  Saint's  Tragedy, 

1519  Act  ii",  Sc.  2. 

The  river  glideth  at  his  own  sweet  will. 

Wordsworth  :  Earth  has  not  anything  to 

1520  show  more  fair. 


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Robbery. 

I  '11  example  you  with  thievery  : 
The  sun  's  a  thief,  and  with  his  great  attraction 
Robs  the  vast  sea ;  the  moon  's  an  arrant  thief, 
And  her  pale  fire  she  snatches  from  the  sun  ; 
The  sea  's  a  thief,  whose  liquid  surge  resolves 
The  moon  into  salt  tears  ;  the  earth 's  a  thief. 
That  feeds  and  breeds  by  a  composture  stolen 
From  general  excrement:  each  thing  's  a  thief. 

1521  Shaks.:   Timon  of  A.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

Rock. 

Better  to  sink  beneath  the  shock 
Tiian  moulder  piecemeal  on  the  rock. 

1522  Byron  :   Giaour,  Line  969. 

Rock  of  Ages,  cleft  for  me, 
Let  me  hide  myself  in  thee. 

1523  ToPLADY  :   Salvation  through  Christ. 

Come  one,  come  all !  this  rock  shall  fly 
From  its  firm  base  as  soon  as  I. 

1524  Scott  :  Lady  of  the  Lake,  Canto  v.,  St.  10. 

Rod. 

His  rod  revers'd, 
And  backward  mutters  of  dissevering  power. 

1525  Milton:    Comus,  Line  816. 

A  light  to  guide,  a  rod 
To  check  the  erring,  and  reprove. 

1526  Wordsworth  :  Ode  to  Duty. 

Roman. 

I  had  rather  be  a  dog,  and  bay  the  moon. 
Than  such  a  Roman. 

1527  Shaks.  :  JuL  CcEsar,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 


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This  was  the  noblest  Roman  of  them  all. 

1528  SuAKS. :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  v.,  Sc.  5. 

Romance. 

Romances  paint  at  full  length  people's  wooings, 
But  only  give  a  bust  of  marriages. 

1529  Byron  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  iii.,  St.  8. 

Lady  of  the  Mere, 
Sole-sitting  by  the  shores  of  old  romance. 

Wordsworth  :  A  Narrow  Girdle  of  Rough 

1530  Stones  and  Crags. 

Rome. 

To  the  glory  that  was  Greece 
And  the  grandeur  that  was  Rome. 

1531  Edgar  A.  Poe  :   To  Helen. 

Rose. 

At  Christmas  I  no  more  desire  a  rose 

Than  wish  a  snow  in  May's  new-fangled  mirth  ; 

But  like  of  each  thing  that  in  season  grows. 

1532  Shaks.  :  Love's  L.  Lost,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

The  rose  looks  fair,  but  fairer  we  it  deem, 
For  that  sweet  odor  which  doth  in  it  live. 

1533  Shaks.  :  Sonnet  liv. 

You  love  the  roses  —  so  do  I.     I  wish 

The  sky  would  rain  down  roses,  as  they  rain 

From  off  the  shaken  bush. 

1534  George  Eliot  :  Spanish  Gypsy,  Bk.  iii. 

As  though  a  rose  should  shut,  and  be  a  bud  again. 

1535  Keats:   Eve  of  St.  Agnes,  St.  27. 


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The  rose  saith  in  the  dewy  morn, 
I  am  most  fair  ; 
Yet  all  my  loveliness  is  born 
Upon  a  thorn. 

Christina  G.  Rossetti  :  Consider  the 

1536  Lilies  of  the  Field. 

Strew  on  her  roses,  roses, 

And  never  a  spray  of  yew  ! 
In  quiet  she  reposes  ; 

Ah,  would  that  I  did  too. 

1537  Matthew  Arnold:  Requiescal. 

Rousseau. 

The  self-torturing  sophist,  wild  Rousseau, 
The  apostle  of  affliction  —  he,  who  threw 
Enchantment  over  passion,  and  from  woe 
Wrung  overwhelming  eloquence. 

1538  Byron  :  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iii.,  St.  77. 

Royalty. 

O  wretched  state  of  Kings !  O  doleful  fate! 
Greatness  misnamed,  in  misery  only  great! 
Could  men  but  know  the  endless  woe  it  brings, 
The  wise  would  die  before  they  would  be  Kings. 
Think  what  a  King  must  do ! 

1539  R.  H.  Stoddard  :   The  Kings  Bell. 

Ruin. 

Where  my  high  steeples  whilom  used  to  stand, 
On  which  the  lordly  falcon  wont  to  tower. 
There  now  is  but  an  heap  of  lime  and  sand. 
For  the  screech-owl  to  build  her  baleful  bower. 

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On  Prague's  proud  arch  the  fires  of  ruin  glow, 
His  blood-dyed  waters  murmuring  far  below. 

1541  Campbell:  PL  of  Hope,  Pt.  i.,  Line  385. 

The  day  sliall  come,  that  great  avenging  day 
Which  Troy's  proud  glories  in  the  dust  shall  lay, 
When  Priam's  powers  and  Priam's  self  shall  fall, 
And  one  prodigious  ruin  swallow  all. 

1542  Pope  :  Iliad,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  196. 

Ruling  Passions. 

In  men,  we  various  Ruling  Passions  find; 
In  women,  two  almost  divide  the  kind; 
Those,  only  fix'd,  they  first  or  last  obey. 
The  love  of  pleasure  and  the  love  of  sway. 

1543  Pope  :  Moral  Essays,  Epis.  ii.,  Line  207. 

Rumor. 

Rumor  is  a  pipe 
Blown  by  surmises,  jealousies,  conjectures; 
And  of  so  easy  and  so  plain  a  stop 
That  the  blunt  monster  with  uncounted  heads, 
The  still-discordant  wavering  multitude. 
Can  play  upon  it. 

1544  SiiAKS. :  Henry  IV.,  Pt.  ii.,  Induction.. 

Rural  Life. 

Of  men 
The  happiest  he,  who  far  from  public  rage, 
Deep  in  the  vale,  with  a  choice  few  retired. 
Drinks  the  pure  pleasures  of  the  rural  life. 

1545  Thomson:  Seasons,  Autumn,  Line  1132. 


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s. 

Sabbath. 

The  Sabbath  bell, 
That  over  wood,  and  wild,  and  mountain  dell 
Wanders  so  far,  chasing  all  thoughts  unholy 
"With  sounds  most  musical,  most  melancholy. 

1546  Rogers  :  Human  Life,  Line  515. 

Yes,  child  of  suffering,  thou  mayst  well  be  sure 
He  who  ordained  the  Sabbath  loves  the  poor ! 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  :  A  Rhymed 

1547  Lesson,      tlrania. 

E'en  Sunday  shines  no  Sabbath-day  to  me. 

1548  Pope:   Epis.  to  ArhuOinot,  Line,  12. 

Xor  can  his  blessed  soul  look  down  from  heaven, 
Or  break  the  eternal  sabbath  of  his  rest. 

1549  Dryden  :   Spanish  Friar,  Act  v.,  Sc.  2. 

The  Sabbath  brings  its  kind  release, 
•    And  Care  lies  slumbering  on  the  lap  of  Peace. 
Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  :  A  Rhipned 

1550  Lesson,  Line  229. 

Take  the  Sunday  with  you  through  the  week. 
And  sweeten  with  it  all  the  other  days. 

1551  Longfellow  :  Michael  Angela,  Pt.  i.,  5. 

Sailors. 

Lives  like  a  drunken  sailor  on  a  mast, 
Ready  with  every  nod  to  tumble  down. 

1552  Shaks.  :  Richard  IIL,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 


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O  Thou,  who  in  thy  hand  dost  hold 
The  winds  and  waves  that  wake  or  sleep, 
Thy  tender  arms  of  mercy  fold 
Around  the  seamen  on  the  deep. 

1553  Hannah  F.  Gould  :  Changes  on  the  Deep, 

Messmates,  hear  a  brother  sailor 
Sing  the  dangers  of  the  sea. 

1554  George  A.  Stevens  :   lite  Storm. 

Sails. 

Purple  the  sails,  and  so  perfumed  that 
The  winds  were  love-sick  with  them. 

1555  Shaks.  :  Ant.  and  Cleo.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

He  that  has  sail'd  upon  the  dark  blue  sea 

Has  view'd  at  times,  1  ween,  a  full  fair  sight; 

When  the  fresh  breeze  is  fair  as  breeze  may  be, 

The  white  sails  set,  the  gallant  frigate  tight; 

Masts,  spires,  and  strand  retiring  to  the  right. 

The  glorious  main  expanding  o'er  tiie  bow. 

The  convoy  spread  like  wild  swans  in  their  flight, 

The  dullest  sailer  wearing  bravely  now. 

So  gayly  curl  the  waves  before  each  dashing  prow. 

155G  Byron  :   Ch.  Harold,  Canto  ii.,  St.  17. 

Saints. 

And  now  the  saints  began  their  reign, 
For  which  they  'd  yearn'd  so  long  in  vain, 
And  felt  such  bowel-hankerings. 
To  see  an  empire,  all  of  kings. 

Butler  :  Hudibras,  Pt.  iii.,  Canto  ii., 

1557  Line  237. 

For  virtue's  self  may  too  much  zeal  be  had ; 
The  worst  of  madmen  is  a  saint  run  mad. 

1 558  Pope  :  Satire  iv.,  Line  26. 


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There  is  a  land  of  pure  delight, 
Where  saints  immortal  reign. 

1559  Watts  :  Hymns  and  Spiritual  Songs. 

Just  men,  by  whom  impartial  laws  were  given ; 
And  saints  who  taught  and  led  the  way  to  heaven 
TiCKELL  :   On  the  Death  of  Mr.  Addison, 

1560  Line  41. 

That  saints  will  aid  if  men  will  call; 
For  the  blue  sky  bends  over  all. 

1561  Coleridge  :  Christahel,  Conclusion  to  Pt.  i. 

Salt. 

Alas !  you  know  the  cause  too  well ; 
The  salt  is  spilt,  to  me  it  fell. 

1562  Gay  :  Fables,  Pt.  i.,  Fable  37. 

TVTiy  dost  thou  shun  the  salt  ?  that  sacred  pledge, 
Which  once  partaken  blunts  the  sabre's  edge, 
Makes  even  contending  tribes  in  peace  unite. 
And  hated  hosts  seem  brethren  to  the  sight. 

1563  Byron  :   Corsair,  Canto  ii.,  St.  4. 

Who  ne'er  knew  salt,  or  heard  the  billows  roar. 

1564  Pope  :  Odyssey,  Bk.  xi.,  Line  153. 

Salvation. 

About  some  act 
That  has  no  relish  of  salvation  in  't. 

1565  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  3. 

Therefore,  Jew, 
Though  justice  be  thy  plea,  consider  this, 
That  in  the  course  of  justice  none  of  us 
Should  see  salvation. 

1566  Shaks.  :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 


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Sands. 

Come  unto  these  yellow  sands, 

And  then  take  hands  : 
CoLirtesied  when  you  have,  and  kiss'd 

The  wild  waves  whist. 

1567  Shaks.  :   Tempest,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

Here  are  sand-,  ignoble  things, 
Dropt  from  the  ruined  sides  of  kings. 

Beaumont  :  On  the  Tombs  of  Westinimter 

1568  Abbey. 

Satan. 

To  whom  the  arch-enemy. 
And  thence  in  heaven  call'd  Satan, — with    bold 

words 
Breaking  the  horrid  silence,  thus  began. 

1569  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  i.,  Line  81. 

For  Satan  finds  some  mischief  still 
For  idle  hands  to  do. 

1570  Watts  :  Divine  Songs,  Song  20. 

And  Satan  trembles  when  he  sees 
The  weakest  saint  upon  his  knees. 

1571  CowPER  :  Exhortation  to  Prayer. 

Satiety. 

They  surfeited  with  honey ;  and  began 

To  loathe  the  taste  of  sweetness,  whereof  a  little 

More  than  a  little  is  by  much  too  much. 

1572  Shaks.  :  1  Henry  IV.,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

With  pleasure  drugg'd  he  almost  long'd  for  woe, 
And  e'en  for  change  of  scene  would  seek  the  shades 
below. 

1573  Byron  :  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  i.,  St.  6. 


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Satire. 

Satire  's  my  weapon,  but  I  'm  too  discreet 
To  run  a-rauck,  and  tilt  at  all  I  meet; 
I  only  wear  it  in  a  land  of  Hectors, 
Thieves,  supercargoes,  sharpers,  and  directors. 

1574  Pope  :  Satire  i.,  Line  69. 

Prepare  for  rhyme  —  I  '11  publish,  right  or  wrong  ; 
Fools  are  my  theme,  let  satire  be  my  song. 

1575  Byron  :  Eng.  Bards,  Line  5. 

In  general  satire,  every  man  perceives 

A  slight  attack,  yet  neither  fears  nor  grieves. 

L576  Crabbe:  ylt/i/ce.  Line  244. 

Savage. 

I  am  as  free  as  Nature  first  made  man, 
Ere  the  base  laws  of  servitude  began, 
When  wild  in  woods  the  noble  savage  ran. 

Dryden  :   Conquest  of  Granada,  Pt.  i., 
L577  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Scandal. 

For  greatest  scandal  waits  on  greatest  state. 
L57S  Shaks.  :  Zucrece,  Line  1006. 

You  know 
That  I  do  fawn  on  men,  and  hug  them  hard, 
And  after  scandal  them. 

1579  Shaks.  :  Jid.  Ccesar,  Act  i ,  Sc.  2. 

The  whole  court  melted  into  one  wide  whisper, 
And  all  lips  were  applied  unto  all  ears ! 
The  elder  ladies'  wrinkles  curled  much  crisper 
As  they  beheld;  the  younger  cast  some  leers 
On  one  another,  and  each  lovely  lisper 
Smiled  as  she  talked  the  matter  o'er :  but  tears 
Of  rivalship  rose  in  each  clouded  eye 
Of  all  the  standing  army  that  stood  by. 

1580  Byron  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  ix.,  St.  78 


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Scars. 

He  jesfs  at  scars,  that  never  felt  a  wound. 

1581  SiiAKS. :  Rom.  and  Jul.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

Gashed  with  honorable  scars, 
Low  in  Glory's  lap  they  lie. 

15S2     James  Montgomery:  Battle  of  Alexandria. 

Scenes. 

For  wheresoe'er  I  turn  my  ravish'd  eyes, 
Gay  gilded  scenes  and  shining  prospects  rise. 

1583  Addison:  A  Letter  from  Italy. 

Scepticism. 

Oh !  lives  there,  heaven !    beneath  thy  dread  ex- 
panse, 
One  hopeless,  dark  idolater  of  chance. 
Content  to  feed  with  pleasures  unrefin'd, 
The  lukewarm  passions  of  a  lowly  mind; 
Who  mouldering  earthward,  'reft  of  every  trust, 
In  joyless  union  wedded  to  the  dust, 
Could  all  his  parting  energy  dismiss, 
And  call  this  barren  world  sufficient  bliss? 

1581         Campbell  :  PL  of  Hope,  Pt.  ii.,  Line  295. 

Whatever  sceptic  could  inquire  for. 
For  every  why  he  had  a  wherefore. 

1585  Butler  :  Hudibras,  Pt.  i.,  Canto  i.,  Line  131. 

Sceptre. 

His  sceptre  shows  the  force  of  temporal  power. 

The  attribute  to  awe  and  majesty. 

Wherein  doth  sit  the  dread  and  fear  of  kings. 

1586  Shaks.  :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 


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Scholar. 

He  was  a  scholar,  and  a  ripe  and  good  one ; 
Exceeding  wise,  fair-spoken,  and  persuading; 
Lofty  and  sour  to  them  tiiat  loved  him  not, 
But  to  those  men  that  souglit  him  sweet  as  summer. 

1.587  Shaks.  :  Henry  VIII.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  2. 

His  locked,  lettered,  braw  brass  collar 
Showed  him  the  gentleman  and  scholar. 

1.588  Burns  :   The  Twa  Dogs. 

The  land  of  scholars  and  the  nurse  of  arms. 

1589  Goldsmith  :    Traveller,  JAne  356. 

School. 

And  then  the  ^\hining  school-hoy,  with  his  satchel 
And  shining  morning  face,  creeping  like  snail 
Unwillingly  to  school. 

1590  Shaks.  :  As  You  Like  It,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  7. 

Beside  yon  straggling  fence  that  skirts  the  w^ay, 
With  blossom'd  furze  unprofitably  gay, 
There,  in  his  noisy  mansion,  skill'd  to  rule, 
The  village  master  taught  his  little  school; 
A  man  severe  he  was,  and  stern  to  view,  — 
I  knew  him  well,  and  every  truant  knew ; 
Well  had  the  boding  tremblers  learn'd  to  trace 
The  day's  disasters  in  his  morning  face, 

1591  Goldsmith:   Des.  }illage,  Line  193. 

Science. 

Trace  science  then,  with  modesty  thy  guide ; 

First  strip  off  all  her  equipage  of  pride ; 

Deduct  what  is  but  vanity,  or  dress, 

Or  learning's  luxury,  or  idleness ; 

Or  tricks  to  show  the  stretch  of  human  brain, 

Mere  curious  pleasure,  or  ingenious  pain ; 


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Expunge  the  whole,  or  lop  th'  excrescent  parts 

Of  all  our  vices  have  created  arts ; 

Then  see  how  little  the  remaining  sum 

AVhich  serv'd  the  past,  and  must  the  times  to  come. 

1592  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  ii.,  Line  43. 

O  star-eyed  Science  !  hast  thou  wander'd  there, 
To  waft  us  home  the  message  of  despair? 

1593  Campbell  :  PL  of  Hope,  Ft.  ii.,  Line  325. 

Scorn. 

Scorn  at  first,  makes  after-love  the  more. 

1594  Shaks.  :   Two  Gent,  of  V.,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

Alas  !  to  make  me 
The  fixed  figure  of  the  time,  for  scorn 
To  point  his  slow  and  moving  finger  at. 

1595  Shaks.  :  Othello,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  2. 

So  let  him  stand,  through  ages  yet  unborn, 
Fix'd  statue  on  the  pedestal  of  scorn  ! 

1596  Byron  :    Curse  of  Minerva,  Line  207. 

He  hears. 
On  all  sides,  from  innumerable  tongues, 
A  dismal  universal  hiss,  the  sound 
Of  public  scorn. 

1597  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  x.,  Line  506. 

Scotland. 

Stands  Scotland  where  it  did  ? 

1598  SiiAKS. :  Macbeth,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

O  Scotia!  my  dear,  my  native  soil ! 

For  whom  my  warmest  wish  to  heaven  is  sent ! 

J^ong  may  thy  hardy  sons  of  rustic  toil 

Be  blest  with  health,  and  peace,  and  sweet  content. 

1599  Burns  :  Cotter's  Saturday  Night,  St.  20. 


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It  was  a'  for  our  rightf u'  King 

We  left  fair  Scotland's  strand. 

1600  Burns  :  A'  for  our  Rightfu'  King. 

Scribblers. 

Laugh  when  I  laugh,  I  seek  no  other  fame, 
The  cry  is  up,  and  scribblers  are  my  game. 

1601  "  Byron  :  English  Bards,  Line  43. 

Scripture. 

'T  is  elder  Scripture,  writ  by  God's  own  hand,  — 
Scripture  authentic  !  uncorrupt  by  man. 

1602  Young  :  Night  Thoughts,  Night  ix.,  Line  644. 

Sculpture. 

Sculpture  is  more  divine,  and  more  like  Xature, 
That  fashions  all  her  works  in  high  relief, 
And  that  is  Sculpture. 

1603  Longfellow  :  Michael  Angelo,  Pt.  i.,  5. 

A  sculptor  wields 
The  chisel,  and  the  stricken  marble  grows 
To  beauty. 
1601     William  Cullen  Bryant  :  Flood  of  Years. 

Sea. 

•    The  rude  sea  grew  civil  at  her  song. 

And  certain  stars  shot  madly  from  their  spheres 
To  hear  the  sea-maid's  music. 

1605  Shaks.  :   Mid.  N.  Dream,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

The  sea  !  the  sea  !  the  open  sea  ! 

The  blue,  the  fresh,  the  ever  free  ! 

Without  a  mark,  without  a  bound, 

It  runneth  the  earth's  wide  region  round; 

It  plays  with  the  clouds ;  it  mocks  the  skies ; 

Or  like  a  cradled  creature  lies. 

1606  Barry  Cornwall  :   The  Sea. 


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Broad  based  upon  lier  people's  will, 
And  compassed  by  the  inviolate  sea. 

1607  Tennyson  :   To  the  Queen. 

'T  was  when  the  sea  was  roaring, 
With  hollow  blasts  of  wind, 
A  damsel  lay  deploring. 
All  on  a  rock  reclin'd. 

1608  John  Gay  :  What  D'  ye  Call  It,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  8. 

Sea-weed. 

A  weary  weed,  toss'd  to  and  fro, 
Drearily  drench'd  in  the  ocean  brine, 
Soaring  high  and  sinking  low. 
Lashed  along  without  will  of  mine, — 
Sport  of  the  spoom  of  the  surging  sea. 
Flung  on  the  foam  afar  and  anear, 
Mark  my  manifold  mystery, — 
Growth  and  grace  in  their  place  appear. 

1609  Cornelius  G.  Fenner  :  Gulf-Weed. 

Seasons. 

Perceiv'st  thou  not  the  process  of  the  year, 
How^  the  four  seasons  in  four  forms  appear, 
Resembling  human  life  in  ev'ry  shape  they  wear? 
Spring  first,  like  infancy,  shoots  out  her  head. 
With  milky  juice  requiring  to  be  fed:  .  .  . 
Proceeding  onward  whence  the  year  began. 
The  Summer  growls  adult,  and  ripens  into  man.  .  .  . 
Autumn  succeeds,  a  soVjer,  tepid  age, 
Not  froze  with  fear,  nor  boiling  into  rage;  .  .  . 
Last,  Winter  creeps  along  with  tardy  pace, 
Sour  is  his  front,  and  furrowed  is  his  face. 

Dryden  :  Of  Pythagorean  Phil.  From  loth 

1610  Bool:  Orirrs  Metamorphoses,  Line  206. 


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With  thee  conversing  I  forget  all  time, 

All  seasons,  and  their  change,  —  all  please  alike. 

1611  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  639. 

Thus  with  the  year 
Seasons  return  ;  but  not  to  me  returns 
Day,  or  the  sweet  approach  of  even  or  morn, 
Or  sight  of  vernal  bloom  or  summer's  rose, 
Or  flocks,  or  herds,  or  human  face  divine. 

1612  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iii.,  Line  40. 

Seat. 

Oh  for  a  seat  in  some  poetic  nook, 

Just  hid  with  trees  and  sparkling  with  a  brook ! 

1G13  Leigh  Hunt  :  Politics  and  Poetics. 

Secrecy. 

Be  innocent  of  the  knowledge,  dearest  chuck. 

Till  thou  applaud  the  deed. 

161-4  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

I  will  believe 
Thou  wilt  not  utter  what  thou  dost  not  know ; 
.  And  so  far  will  I  trust  thee. 
161.5  Shaks.  :  1  Henry  IV.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  3. 

A  secret  in  his  mouth, 
Is  like  a  wild  bird  put  into  a  cage. 
Whose  door  no  sooner  opens,  but  't  is  out. 

1616  Bex  Joxson  :  Case  is  Altered,  Act  ill.,  Sc.  3 

Sects. 

His  liberal  soul  with  every  sect  agreed, 
Unheard  their  reasons,  he  received  their  creed. 

1617  Crabbe:    Tales,  Convert,  L,me  ^b. 


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Slave  to  no  sect,  who  takes  no  private  road, 
But  looks  through  Nature  up  to  Nature's  God. 

1618  Pope  :   I^ssdi/  un  Man,  Epis.  iv.,  Line  331. 

Security. 

You  all  know,  security 
Ts  mortal's  chiefest  enemy. 

1619  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  5. 

Seed. 

The  thorns  which  I  have  reap'd  are  of  the  tree 
I  planted ;  they  have  torn  me,  and  I  bleed. 
I  should  have  known  what  fruit  would  spring  from 
such  a  seed. 

1620  Byrox:   Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iv.,  St.  10. 

Self. 

None  are  so  desolate  but  something  dear, 

Dearer  than  self,  possesses  or  possess'd 

A  thought,  and  claims  the  homage  of  a  tear. 

1621  Byron  :   Ch.  Harold,  Canto  ii.,  St.  24. 

Selfishness. 

Despite  those  titles,  power  and  pelf, 

The  wretch,  concentred  all  in  self, 

Living,  shall  forfeit  fair  renown. 

And,  doubly  dying,  shall  go  down 

To  the  vile  dust,  from  whence  he  sprung, 

Unwept,  unhonored,  and  unsung. 

Scott  :  Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  Canto  vi., 

1622  St.  1. 

Self-Conceit. 

To  observations  which  ourselves  we  make. 
We  grow  more  partial  for  th'  observer's  sake. 

1623  Pope  :  Moral  Essays,  Epis.  i.,  Line  2. 


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Seli-Control. 

May  I  govern  my  passions  with  absolute  sway, 
And  grow  wiser  and  better  as  my  strength  wears 

away, 
...  by  a  gentle  decay. 

Dr.  Walter  Pope  :  The  Old  Mans  Wish, 

1624  Chorus. 

Self-Defence. 

Self-defence  is  a  virtue, 
Sole  bulwark  of  all  right. 

1625  Byrox  :  Sardanapalus,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Self-Denial. 

Brave  conquerors  !  for  so  you  are, 
That  war  against  your  own  affections. 
And  the  huge  army  of  the  world's  desires. 

1626  Shaks.  :  Love's  L.  Lost,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Self-Dispraise. 

There  is  a  luxury  in  self-dispraise ; 
And  inward  self-disparagement  affords 
To  meditative  spleen  a  grateful  feast. 

1627  Wordsworth  :   The  Excursion,  Bk.  iv. 

Self -Esteem. 

Oft  times  nothing  profits  more 
Than  self-esteem,  grounded  on  just  and  right 
Well  manag'd. 

1628  MiLTOx  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  viii.,  Line  571. 

Self-Knowledge. 

To  know  thyself — in  others  self-concern; 
Would'st  thou  know  others  ?  read  thyself  —  and 
learn ! 

1629  Schiller  :   Votive  Tablets,  The  Key. 


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Self-Love. 

Self-love,  my  liege,  is  not  so  vile  a  sin 
As  self-ueglecting. 

1630  SiiAKS.  :  Henry  V.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  4. 

Self-love,  the  spring  of  motion,  acts  the  soul; 
Reason's  comparing  balance  rules  the  whole. 

1631  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  ii.,  Line  59. 

Self-Reproach. 

Men  who  can  hear  the  Decalogue,  and  feel 
Xo  self-reproach. 

1632  AVoRDSWORTH  :  The  Old  Cumberland  Beggar. 

Self-Respect. 

He  that  respects  himself  is  safe  from  others ; 
He  wears  a  coat  of  mail  that  none  can  pierce. 

1633  Longfellow  :  Michael  Angela,  Pt.  ii. 

Self-Sacrifice. 

Give  unto  me,  made  lowly  wise, 
The  spirit  of  self-sacrifice. 

1634  Wordsworth  :  Ode  to  Duty. 

Sense. 

A  man  whose  blood 
Is  very  snow-broth  ;  one  who  never  feels 
The  wanton  stings  and  motions  of  the  sense. 

1635  Shaks.  :  M.  for  M.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  4. 

Good  sense,  which  only  is  the  gift  of  Heaven, 
And  though  no  science,  fairly  worth  the  seven. 

1636  Pope:  Moral  Essays,  Epis.  iv.,  Line  43. 


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Sensibility. 

Our  sensibilities  are  so  acute, 

The  fear  of  being  silent  makes  us  mute. 

1637  Cowper:   Con te/'sa^ion,  Line  351. 

Sweet  sensibility  !  thou  keen  delight ! 

Unprompted  moral !  sudden  sense  of  right! 

1G38  Hannah  More  :  Sensibility,  Line  227. 

Separation. 

Thy  soul  .  .  . 
Is  as  far  from  my  grasp,  is  as  free, 
As  the  stars  from  the  mountain-tops  be, 
As  the  pearl  in  the  depths  of  the  sea. 
From  the  portionless  king  that  would  wear  it. 
1639         E.  C.  Stedman:  Stanzas  fur  Music,  St.  3. 

September. 

September  waves  his  golden-rod 

Along  the  lanes  and  hollows, 
And  saunters  round  the  sunny  fields 

A-playing  with  the  swallows. 

1610  Ellen  Mackay  Hutchinson  :  The  Prince. 

Sermons. 

Finds  tongues  in  trees,  books  in  the  running  brooks. 
Sermons  in  stones,  and  good  in  everything. 

1611  Shaks.  :  As  You  Like  It,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Perhaps  it  may  turn  out  a  sang, 
Perhaps  turn  out  a  sermon. 

1612  Burns  :  Epistle  to  a  Young  Friend. 

Serpent. 

What !    would'st  thou  have  a  serpent  sting  thee 
twice  V 

1613  Shaks.  :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  L 


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Where  's  my  serpent  of  old  Nile  ? 

1644  SnAKS. :  Aiit.  and  Cleo.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  5. 

And  hence  one  master-passion  in  the  breast, 

Like  Aaron's  serpent,  swallows  up  the  rest. 

1(345  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  ii.,  Line  1:^. 

Some  flow'rets  of  Eden  ye  still  inherit, 

But  the  trail  of  the  Serpent  is  over  them  all. 

1646  Mooke:  Paradise  and  the  Peri 

Service. 

Ful  wel  she  sange  the  service  devine, 
Entuned  in  hire  nose  ful  swetely. 

Chaucer  :   Canterbury  Tales,  Prologue, 

1647  Line  122. 

And  ye  shall  succor  men  ; 

'T  is  nobleness  to  serve  ; 

Help  them  who  cannot  help  again  : 

Beware  from  right  to  swerve. 

1648  Emerson:  Boston  Hymn,  St.  13. 

Sex. 

Think  you  I  am  no  stronger  than  my  sex, 
Being  so  father'd  and  so  husbanded? 

1649  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Spirits  when  they  please 
Can  either  sex  assume,  or  both. 

1650  Milton  :  Far.  Lost,  Bk.  i.,  Line  423. 

Sexton. 

See  yonder  maker  of  the  dead  man's  bed, 

The  sexton,  hoary-headed  chronicle  ! 

Of  hard,  unmeaning  face,  down  which  ne'er  stole 

A  gentle  tear;  with  mattock  in  his  hand, 


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Digs  thro'  whole  rows  of  kindred  and  acquaintance 
By  far  his  juniors !     Scarce  a  skull  's  cast  up 
But  well  he  knew  its  owner,  and  can  tell 
Some  passage  of  his  life. 

1651  Blair:   The  Grave,  Line  4ib2. 

His  death,  which  happened  in  his  berth, 

At  forty-odd  befell : 
They  went  and  told  the  sexton,  and 

The  sexton  tolled  the  bell. 

1652  Hood:  Faithless  Sally  Brown. 

Shadow. 

Shine  out,  fair  sun,  till  I  have  bought  a  glass, 
That  I  may  see  my  shadow  as  I  pass. 

1653  Shaks.  :  Richard  III.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 


Syene,  and  where  the  shadow  both  way  falls, 
Meroe,  Nilotic  isle. 

1654        Milton  :  Par.  Regained,  Bk.  iv.,  Line 


Our  acts  our  angels  are,  or  good  or  ill, 
Our  fatal  shadows  that  walk  by  us  still. 

John  Fletcher  :   Upon  an  "  Honest 

1655  Man's  Fortune.'' 

Shaft. 

In  my  school-days,  when  I  had  lost  one  shaft, 

I  sliot  his  fellow  of  the  selfsame  flight 

The  selfsame  way,  with  more  advised  watch. 

To  find  the  other  forth  ;  and  by  adventuring  both 

1  oft  found  both. 

1656  SnAKS. :   .V.  of  ]'enice,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 


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That  eagle's  fate  and  mine  are  one, 
Which  on  the  shaft  that  made  him  die 

Espied  a  feather  of  his  own, 

Wherewith  he  wont  to  soar  so  high. 

Waller  :   To  a  Lady  Singing  a  Song  of 

1657  his  Composing. 

Shakespeare. 

Soul  of  the  age  ! 
Th'  applause  !  delight !  the  wonder  of  our  stage  I 
My  Shakespeare,  rise !  I  will  not  lodge  thee  by 
Chaucer,  or  Spenser,  or  bid  Beaumont  lie 
A  little  further,  to  make  thee  room ; 
Thou  art  a  monument,  without  a  tomb. 
And  art  alive  still,  while  thy  book  doth  live. 
And  we  have  wdts  to  read,  and  praise  to  give. 

Ben  Jonson:    Underwoods,  To  the  Mem. 

1658  of  Shakespeare. 

There,  Shakespeare,  on  whose  forehead  climb 
The  crowns  o'  the  world.    Oh,  eyes  sublime, 
With  tears  and  laughters  for  all  time  1 

1659  INIus.  Browning:  Vision  of  Poets,  St.  101. 

Or  sweetest  Shakespeare,  Fancy's  child, 
Warble  his  native  wood-notes  wild. 

1660  Milton  :  L' Allegro,  Line  129. 

What    needs    my    Shakespeare    for   his    honor'd 

bones, — 
The  labor  of  an  age  in  piled  stones? 
Or  that  his  hallow 'd  relics  should  be  hid 
Under  a  star-y-pointing  pyramid? 
Dear  son  of  memory,  great  heir  of  fame, 
What  need'st  thou  such  weak  witness  of  thy  name? 

1661  Milton  :  On  Shakespeare. 


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Shame. 

(),  shame  1  where  is  thy  blush? 

10(32  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 

But  'neath  yon  crimson  tree 
Lover  to  listening  maid  might  breathe  his  flame, 
Nor  mark,  within  its  roseate  canopy. 

Her  blush  of  maiden  shame. 

1663  William  CuLLEN  Bryant  :  Autumn  Woods, 

Shape. 

Take  any  shape  but  that,  and  my  firm  nerves 
Shall  never  tremble. 

1664  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 

The  other  shape, 
If  shape  it  might  be  calPd  that  shape  had  none 
Distinguishable  in  member,  joint,  or  limb. 

1665  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  681. 

Shell. 

I  have  seen 
A  curious  child,  who  dwelt  upon  a  tract 
Of  inland  ground,  applying  to  his  ear 
The  convolutions  of  a  smooth-lipped  shell, 
To  which,  in  silence  hushed,  his  very  soul 
Listened  intensely. 

1666  Wordsworth:   The  Excursion,  Ek.  \v. 

SheUey. 

Ah.  did  you  once  see  Shelley  plain, 

And  did  he  stop  and  speak  to  you, 
And  did  you  speak  to  him  again  ? 

How  strange  it  seems,  and  new ! 

1667  Robert  Browning  :  Memorabilia,  L 


256    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Sheridan. 

Lonc^  shall  we  seek  his  likeness  —  long  in  vain, 
And  turn  to  all  of  him  which  may  remain, 
Sighing  that  nature  form'd  but  one  such  man. 
And  broke  the  die  —  in  moulding  Sheridan. 
1668         Byron  :  Monody  on  the  Death  of  Sheridan, 

Shield. 

When  Prussia  hurried  to  the  field, 

And  snatch'd  the  spear,  but  left  the  shield. 


Ships. 

Was  this  the  face  that  launch'd  a  thousand  ships. 
And  burnt  the  topless  towers  of  Ilium? 

1670  Marlowe  :  Faustus. 

Like  sister  sails  that  drift  at  night 
Together  on  the  deep, 
Seen  only  where  they  cross  the  light 
That  pathless  waves  must  pathlike  keep 
From  fisher's  signal  fire,  or  pharos  steep. 

1671  RusKiN  :  The  Broken  Chain,  Pt.  v.,  St.  25. 

She  walks  the  waters  like  a  thing  of  life. 
And  seems  to  dare  the  elements  to  strife. 

1672  Byron  :  Corsair,  Canto  i.,  St.  3. 

As  idle  as  a  painted  ship 
Upon  a  painted  ocean. 

1673  CoLKRiDGE  :   The  Ancient  Mariner,  Pt.  ii. 

Shipwreck. 

O,  I  have  suffer'd 
With  those  that  T  saw  suffer  !  a  brave  vessel, 


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Who  had  no  doubt  some  noble  creature  in  her, 
Dash'd  all  to  pieces,     O,  the  cry  did  knock 
Against  my  very  heart !  poor  souls  !  they  perish'd. 

1674  Shaks.  :   Tenqjest,  Act  i,,  Sc.  2. 

Again  she  plunges!  hark!  a  second  shock 
Bilges  the  splitting  Vessel  on  the  Rock  — 
Down  on  the  vale  of  death,  with  dismal  cries 
The  fated  victims  shuddering  cast  their  eyes, 
In  wild  despair;  while  yet  another  stroke, 
With  strong  convulsion  rends  the  solid  oak : 
Ah  Heaven  !  —  behold  her  crashing  ribs  divide  ! 
She  loosens,  parts,  and  spreads  in  ruin  o'er  the  Tide. 

1675  Falconer  :  Shipwreck,  Canto  iii.,  Line  642. 

Shoes. 

I  saw  them  go :  one  horse  was  blind, 
The  tails  of  both  hung  down  behind. 
Their  shoes  were  on  their  feet. 

James  Smith  :  Rejected  Addresses,  The 

1676  Baby's  Debut. 

Let  firm,  well-hammer'd  soles  protect  thy  feet, 
Thro'  freezing  snows,  and  rain,  and  soaking  sleet. 

1677  Gay:   Trivia,  Bk.  i.,  Line  33. 

Shore. 

But  the  poor,  unsightly,  noisome  things 

Had  left  their  beauty  on  the  shore. 

With  the  sun  and  the  sand  and  the  wild  uproar. 

1678  Emerson:  Each  and  All. 

There  is  a  rapture  on  the  lonely  shore ; 
There  is  society,  where  none  intrudes, 
By  the  deep  sea,  and  music  in  its  roar. 

1679  Byron  :  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iv.,  St.  178. 


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A  strong  nor'wester  's  blowing,  Bill ! 

Hark  !  don't  ye  hear  it  roar  now  ? 
Lord  help  'em,  how  I  pities  them 

Unhappy  folks  on  shore  now ! 

1680  William  Pitt  :   The  Sailors  Consolation. 

Show. 

Live  to  be  the  show  and  gaze  o'  the  time. 

1681  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  v.,  Sc.  8. 

With  books  and  money  plac'd  for  show 
Like  nest-eggs  to  make  clients  lay, 
And  for  his  false  opinion  pay. 

Butlek:  Hudibras,  Ft.  iii..  Canto  iii., 

1682  Line  624. 

Shrine. 

What  sought  they  thus  afar? 

Bright  jewels  of  the  mine, 
The  wealth  of  seas,  the  spoils  of  war? 

They  sought  a  faith's  pure  shrine. 

1683  Hemans:  Landing  of  the  Pilgrim  Fathers. 

Sickness. 

This  sickness  doth  infect 
The  very  life-blood  of  our  enterprise. 
1081:  Shaks.  :  1  Henry  IV.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

Sighs. 

My  story  being  done, 
She  gave  me  for  my  pains  a  world  of  sighs. 
1685  SriAKS. :  Othello,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

He  sighed ;  — the  next  resource  is  the  full  moon, 

Where  all  sighs  are  deposited;  and  now 

It  happen'd  luckily,  the  chaste  orb  shone. 

1680  Byron  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  xvi.,  St.  13. 


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Sight. 

Visions  of  glory,  spare  my  aching  sight 
Ye  unborn  ages,  crowd  not  on  my  soul! 

1G87  Gray:    The  Bard,  Vt.  in.,  St.  1, 

0  Christ !  it  is  a  goodly  sight  to  see 

What  Heaven  hath  done  for  this  delicious  land. 

1GS8  Byron:   Ch.  Harold,  Canto  i.,  St.  15. 

Signs. 

Sometime  we  see  a  cloud  that 's  dragon ish  : 

A  vapor,  sometime,  like  a  bear,  or  lion, 

A  tower'd  citadel,  a  pendent  rock, 

A  forked  mountain,  or  blue  promontory 

"With  trees  upon  't,  that  nod  unto  the  world, 

And  mock  our  eves  with  air :  thou  hast  seen  these 

signs ; 
They  are  black  vesper's  pageants. 

1689  SnAKS.  :  Ant.  and  Cleo.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  12. 

Silence. 

Silence  is  the  perfectest  herald  of  joy : 

1  were  but  little  happy,  if  I  could  say  how  much. 

1690  Shaks.  :  Much  Ado,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Silence  in  love  bewrays  more  woe 
Than  words,  tho'  ne'er  so  witty; 
A  beggar  that  is  dumb,  you  know, 
May  challenge  double  pity. 

1691  Sir  Walter  Raleigh  :  Silent  Lover,  St.  6. 

Silence  more  musical  than  any  song. 

1692  Christina  G.  Rossetti  :  Rest. 


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Silence  accompany'd  ;  for  beast  and  bird, 
They  to  their  ^c^rassy  couch,  these  to  their  nests, 
AVere  slunk,  all  but  the  wakeful  nightingale; 
She  all  night  long  her  amorous  descant  sung; 
Silence  was  pleas'd. 

1693  Milton:  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  598. 


There  was  silence  deep  as  death, 
And  the  boldest  held  his  breath 
For  a  time. 

1694  Campbell:  Battle  of  the  Baltic. 


There  is  a  silence  where  hath  been  no  sound, 
There  is  a  silence  where  no  sound  may  be,  — 
In  the  cold  grave,  under  the  deep,  deep  sea. 
Or  in  the  wide  desert  where  no  life  is  found. 

1695  Hood  :  Sonnet,  Silence. 

Silver. 

Lady,  by  yonder  blessed  moon  I  swear. 
That  tips  with  silver  all  these  fruit-tree  tops. 

1696  Shaks.  :  Rom.  and  Jul.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

Similarity. 

J^ike  will  to  like  :  each  creature  loves  his  kind. 
Chaste  words  proceed  still  from  a  bashful  mind. 

1697  Herrick  :  Aph.     Like  Loves  His  Like. 

Simplicity. 

And  simple  truth  miscall'd  simplicity. 
And  captive  good  attending  captive  ill. 

1698  Shaks.  :  Sonnet  Ixvi. 


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Rich  in  saving  common-sense, 
And,  as  the  greatest  only  are. 
In  his  simplicity  sublime. 

Tennyson  :   Ode  on  the  Death  of  the  Duke 

1699  of  Wellington,  bt.  4. 

Sin. 

Cut  off  even  in  the  blossoms  of  my  sin, 
Unhousell'd,  disappointed,  unaneled. 

1700  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  5. 

One  sin,  I  know,  another  doth  provoke ; 
Murder  's  as  near  to  lust,  as  flame  to  smoke. 

1701  Shaks.  :  Pericles,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

In  lashing  sin,  of  every  stroke  beware, 

For  sinners  feel,  and  sinners  you  must  spare. 

1702  Crabbe  :   Tales,  Adcice,  Line  212. 

But  sad  as  angels  for  the  good  man's  sin, 
Weep  to  record,  and  blush  to  give  it  in. 

.  1703        Campbell  :  PI.  of  Hope,  Pt.  ii.,  Line  357. 

I  waive  the  quantum  o'  the  sin, 

The  hazard  of  concealing; 
But,  och  !  it  hardens  a'  within. 

And  petrifies  the  feeling ! 

1701  Burns  :  Epistle  to  a  Young  Friend. 

Compound  for  sins  they  are  inclined  to, 
By  damning  those  they  have  no  mind  to. 

1705     Butler  :  Hudibras,  Pt.  i.,  Canto  i..  Line  215. 


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Sincerity. 

I  never  tempted  her  with  word  too  large, 
But,  as  a  brother  to  his  sister,  sliow'd 
Bashful  sincerity  and  comely  love. 

1706  SiiAKs. :  Much  Ado,  xVct  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

His  nature  is  too  noble  for  the  world : 

He  would  not  flatter  Neptune  for  his  trident, 

Or  .love  for  's  power  to  thunder.     His  heart 's  his 

mouth: 
What  his  breast  forges  that  his  tongue  must  vent. 

1707  Shaks.  :  Coriolanus,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

Singing. 

But  in  his  motion  like  an  angel  sings, 
Still  quiring  to  the  young-eyed  cherubims. 

1708  Shaks.:  .V.  of  Venice,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Sing,  seraph  with  the  glory  !  heaven  is  high. 
Sing,  poet  with  the  sorrow !  earth  is  low. 
The  universe's  inward  voices  cry 
"Amen  "  to  either  song  of  joy  and  woe. 
Sing,  seraph,  poet!  sing  on  equally! 

1709  jMhs.  Browning:  Sonnets,  Seraph  and  Poet, 

I  send  my  heart  up  to  thee,  all  my  heart 

In  this  my  singing ! 

For  the  stars  help  me,  and  the  sea  bears  part. 

1710  Robert  Browning  :  In  a  Gondola. 

I  do  but  sing  because  I  must. 

And  pipe  but  as  the  linnets  sing. 

1711  Tennyson  :  In  Memoriam,  Pt.  xxi.,  St.  6. 

Song  forbids  victorious  deeds  to  die. 

1712  Schiller:  Artists,  ^t.W. 


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Singularity. 
2n  o  two  oil  earth  in  all  things  can  agree ; 
All  have  some  darling  singularity. 

1713  Churchill  :  Apologi/,  Line  402. 

Sister. 

Oh,  never  say  hereafter 
But  I  am  truest  speaker.     You  call'd  me  brother 
When  I  was  but  your  sister. 

1714  Shaks.  :  Cymheline,  Act  v.,  Sc.  5. 

SkiU. 

Hov\-  happy  is  he  born  or  taught, 

That  serveth  not  another's  will; 
Whose  armor  is  his  honest  thought. 

And  simple  truth  his  utmost  skill! 

1715  WoTTON  :   Character  of  a  Happy  Life. 

Sk\iU. 

Look  on  its  broken  arch,  its  ruined  wail, 
Its  chambers  desolate,  its  portals  foul ; 
Yes,  this  was  once  ambition's  airy  hall, 
The  dome  of  thought,  the  palace  of  the  soul. 

1716  Byron:   Ch.  Harold,  Canto  ii.,  St.  6. 

Sky. 

Man  is  the  nobler  growth  our  realms  supply, 
And  souls  are  ripened  in  our  northern  sky. 

1717  Mrs.  Barbauld  :   The  Invitation. 

The  sky  is  changed,  —  and  such  a  change.    O  night 
And  storm  and  darkness  !  ye  are  wondrous  strong, 
Yet  lovely  in  your  strength,  as  is  the  light 
Of  a  dark  eye'^in  woman  ! 

1718  Byron  :  Ch.  HarohL  Canto  iii.,  St.  92. 


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Slander. 

Slanderous  reproaches,  and  foul  infamies, 
Leasings,  backbitings,  and  vainglorious  crakes, 
Bad  counsels,  praises,  and  false  flatteries  ; 
All  those  against  that  fort  did  bend  their  batteries. 
Spenser  :  Faerie  Queene,  Bk.  ii.,  Canto  xi., 

1719  St.  10. 

'T  is  slander. 
Whose   edge   is  sharper  than   the  sword :  whose 

tongue 
Outvenonis  all  the  worms  of  Nile;  whose  breath 
Rides  on  the  posting  winds,  and  doth  belie 
All   corners   of   the   world,  —  kings,    queens,  and 

states. 
Maids,  matrons,  —  nay,  the  secrets  of  the  grave 
This  viperous  slander  enters. 

1720  Shaks.  :   Cymheline,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 

'T  was  slander  filled  her  mouth  with  lying  words,  — 
Slander,  the  foulest  whelp  of  sin. 

1721  PoLLOK  :  Course  of  Time,  Bk.  viii.,  Line  715. 

Slave  —  Slavery. 

Thou  art  a  slave,  whom  Fortune's  tender  arm 
With  favor  never  clasp'd  :  but  bred  a  dog. 

1722  Shaks.  :   Timon  of  A.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

He  finds  his  fellow  guilty  of  a  skin 
Not  color'd  like  his  own,  and  having  pow'r 
T'  enforce  the  wrong,  for  such  a  worthy  cause 
Dooms  and  devotes  him  as  his  lawful  prey. 

1723  CowPER  :   Task,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  12. 

Corrupted  freemen  are  the  worst  of  slaves. 

1724  David  Garrick  :  Prologue  to  the  Gamesters. 


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Whatever  day 
Makes  man  a  slave,  takes  half  his  worth  away. 
1725  Pope  :  Odyssey,  Bk.  xvii..  Line  392. 


Sleep. 

We  are  such  stuff 
As  dreams  are  made  on  ;  and  our  little  life 
Is  rounded  with  a  sleep. 

1726  Shaks.  :   Tempest,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

Sleep,  that  knits  up  the  ravell'd  sleave  of  care, 
The  death  of  each  day's  life,  sore  labor's  bath, 
Balm  of  hurt  minds,  great  nature's  second  course, 
Chief  nourisher  in  life's  feast. 

1727  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

Come,  sleep,  O  sleep !  the  certain  knot  of  peace, 
The  baiting-place  of  wit,  the  balm  of  woe; 
The  poor  man's  wealth,  the  prisoner's  release. 
The  impartial  judge  between  the  high  and  low\ 
Sir  Philip  Sidney  :  Astrophel  and  Stella, 

1728  St.  39. 

Tired  nature's  sweet  restorer,  balmy  sleep! 

He,  like  the  world,  his  ready  visit  pays 

Where  fortune  smiles  —  the  wretched  he  forsakes. 

1729  Yo\:^g:  Night  Thoughts,  ^ig\it\.,lumQ\. 

O  magic  sleep  !  O  comfortable  bird 

That  broodest  o'er  the  troubled  sea  of  the  mind 

Till  it  is  hush'd  and  smooth  ! 

1730  Keats  :  Endymion,  Line  456. 

Sleep  hath  its  own  world, 
A  boundary  between  the  things  misnamed 
Death  and  existence  :  Sleep  hath  its  own  world, 
And  a  wide  realm  of  wild  reality. 

1731  Byron  :  Dream,  Line  1. 


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Sleep  the  sleep  that  knows  not  breaking, 
Morn  of  toil,  nor  night  of  waking. 

1732  Scott  :  Ladi/  of  the  Lake,  Canto  i.,  St.  31. 

Of  all  the  thoughts  of  God  that  are 
Borne  inward  into  souls  afar. 
Along  the  Psalmist's  music  deep, 
Now  tell  me  if  that  any  is, 
For  gift  or  grace,  surpassing  this  — 
"  He  giveth  His  beloved  sleep  "  V 

1733  Mrs.  Browning  :  Sleep. 

Be  thy  sleep 
Silent  as  night  is,  and  as  deep. 

Longfellow"  :   Chi-istus,  Golden  Legend, 

1734  Pt.  ii. 

Sleep  will  bring  thee  dreams  in  starry  number  — 
Let  him  come  to  thee  and  be  thy  guest. 

1735  Aytoun  :  Hermolunus. 

Sloth. 

Sloth  views  the  towers  of  Fame  with  envious  eyes, 
Desirous  still,  but  impotent  to  rise. 

1736  Shenstone:  Moral  Pieces. 

Sluggard. 

'T  is  the  voice  of  the  sluggard ;  I  heard  him  com- 
plain, 

"  You  have  waked  me  too  soon,  I  must  slumber 
again." 

1737  Watts  :   The  Sluggard. 

Smiles. 

One  may  smile,  and  smile,  and  be  a  villain. 

1738  SiiAKS. :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  5. 


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With  the  smile  that  was  childlike  and  bland. 

Bret  Harte  :  Plain  Language  from 
1739  Truthful  James. 

Death 
Grinn'd  horrible  a  ghastly  smile,  to  hear 
His  famine  should  be  tilled. 
17-iO  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  84.5. 

Without  the  smile  from  partial  beauty  won, 
Oh  what  were  man?  —  a  world  without  a  sun. 

1741  Campbell:  PI.  of  Hope,  Ft.  ii..  Line  2L 

Even  children  follow 'd  with  endearing  wile, 
And  pluck'd  his  gown,  to  share  the  good  man's 
smile. 

1742  Goldsmith  :  Des.  Village,  Line  183. 

Smoke. 

1  knew,  by  the  smoke  that  so  gracefully  curl'd 
Above  the  green  elms,  that  a  cottage  was  near. 

1743  Moore  :  Ballad  Stanzas. 

Snail. 

The  snail,  whose  tender  horns  being  hit, 
Shrinks  backward  in  his  shelly  cave  with  pain, 
And  there,  all  smother'd  up  in  shade,  doth  sit, 
Long  after  fearing  to  creep  forth  again. 

1744  Shaks.  :  Venus  and  A.,  Line  1033. 

Snake. 

We  have  scotch'd  the  snake,  not  kill'd  it ; 
She  '11  close,  and  be  herself  ;  whilst  our  poor  malice 
Remains  in  danger  of  her  former  tooth. 

1745  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 


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Snow. 

Or  wallow  naked  in  December  snow 

By  thinking  on  fantastic  summer's  heat? 

1746  Shaks.  :  Richard  IL,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

A  cheer  for  the  snow  —  the  drifting  snow  ; 
Smoother  and  purer  than  Beauty's  brow  ; 
The  creature  of  thought  scarce  likes  to  tread 
On  the  delicate  carpet  so  richly  spread. 

1747  Eliza  Cook  :  Snow. 

Announced  by  all  the  trumpets  of  tlie  sky, 
Arrives  the  snow,  and,  driving  o'er  the  fields, 
Seems  nowhere  to  alight :  the  whited  air 
Hides  hills  and  woods,  the  river,  and  the  heaven. 

1748  Emerson  :   The  Snow-Storm. 

Sno"w-Drop. 

The  snow-drop,  who,  in  habit  white  and  plain. 
Comes  on,  the  herald  of  fair  Flora's  train. 

1749  Churchill  :   Gotham,  Bk.  i.,  Line  245. 


Snuff. 

When  they  talked  of  their  Raphaels,  Correggios, 

and  stuff. 
He  shifted  his  trumpet  and  only  took  snuff. 

1750  Goldsmith  :  Retaliation,  Line  145. 

Lady,  accept  the  gift  a  hero  wore 

In  spite  of  all  this  elegiac  stuff ; 
Let  not  seven  stanzas  written  by  a  bore 

Prevent  your  ladyship  from  taking  snuff. 

1751  Byron  :  Lines  to  Lady  Holland. 


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Society. 

Man  in  society  is  like  a  flower 

Blown  in  its  native  bed ;  't  is  there  alone 

His  faculties  expanded  in  full  bloom 

Shine  out ;  there  only  reach  their  proper  use. 

1752  CowpER  :   Task;  Bk.  iv.,  Line  659. 

Society  became  my  glittering  bride, 
And  airy  hopes  my  children. 

1753  Wordsworth  :  Excursion,  Bk.  iii. 

Soldier. 

A  soldier  ; 
Full  of  strange  oaths,  and  bearded  like  the  pard, 
Jealous  in  honor,  sudden  and  quick  in  quarrel. 
Seeking  the  bubble  reputation 
Even  in  the  cannon's  mouth. 

1754  Shaks.  :  .4s  You  Like  It,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  7. 


And  but  for  these  vile  guns. 
He  would  himself  have  been  a  soldier. 

1755  Shaks.  :  1  Henry  IV.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 


The  broken  soldier,  kindly  bade  to  stay. 
Sat  by  his  fire,  and  talk'd  the  night  away  ; 
Wept  o'er  his  wounds,  or,  tales  of  sorrow  done, 
Shoulder'd  his  crutch,  and  show'd  how  fields  were 
won. 

1756  Goldsmith  :  Des.  Village,  Line  155. 

How  shall  we  rank  thee  upon  glory's  page. 
Thou  more  than  soldier,  and  just  less  than  sage? 

1757  Moore  :  To  Thomas  Hume. 


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Solitude. 

Solitude  sometimes  is  best  society, 

And  short  retirement  urges  sweet  return. 

1758  MiLTOX  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ix.,  Line  249. 

O  solitude !  where  are  the  charms 
That  sages  have  seen  in  thy  face? 
Better  dwell  in  the  midst  of  alarms, 
Than  reign  in  this  horrible  place. 

CowPER  :   Vei'ses  supposed  to  be  written  by 

1759  Alex.  Selkirk,  St.  1. 

Man  dwells  apart,  though  not  alone. 

He  walks  among  his  peers  unread ; 

The  best  of  thoughts  which  he  hath  known. 

For  lack  of  listeners  are  not  said. 

Jean  Ingelow  :  Afternoon  at  a  Parsoymge, 

1760  Afterthought. 

It  was  a  wild  and  lonely  ride. 

Save  the  hid  loon's  mocking  cry, 
Or  marmot  on  the  mountain  side, 

The  earth  was  silent  as  the  sky. 

1761  Hamlin  Garland  :   The  Long  Trail. 


Thence  to  be  wrench'd  with  an  unlineal  hand, 
Ko  son  of  mine  succeeding. 

1762  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

The  booby  father  craves  a  booby  son. 

And  by  Heaven's  blessing  thinks  himself  undone. 

1763  Young:  Love  of  Fame,  Satire  ii.,  Line  165. 


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Song. 

And  heaven  had  wanted  one  immortal  song. 

Dryden  :  Absalom  and  Ackitophel,  Pt.  i., 

1764  Line  197. 

That  not  in  fancy's  maze  he  wander'd  long, 
But  stoop'd  to  truth,  and  moraliz'd  his  song. 

1765  Pope  :  Prologue  to  the  Satires,  Line  340. 

For  dear  to  gods  and  men  is  sacred  song. 
Self-taught  I  sing;  by  Heaven,  and  Heaven  alone, 
The  genuine  seeds  of  poesy  are  sown. 

1766  Pope  :  Odyssey,  Bk.  xxii.,  Line  382. 

Sonnet. 

Scorn  not  the  sonnet.     Critic,  you  have  frowned, 
Mindless  of  its  just  honors;  with  this  key 
Shakespeare  unlocked  his  heart. 

1767  AVoKDSWORTH  :  Scorn  not  the  Sonnet. 

Sorrow. 

Give  sorrow  words  :  the  grief  that  does  not  speak 
Whispers  the  o'erfraught  heart,  and  bids  it  break. 

1768  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

One  sorrow  never  comes,  but  brings  an  heir. 
That  may  succeed  as  his  inheritor. 

1769  Shaks.  :  Pericles,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Xothing  comes  to  us  too  soon  but  sorrow. 

1770  Bailey:  Festus,  Sc.  Home. 

This  is  truth  the  poet  sings. 
That  a  sorrow's  crown  of  sorrow  is  remembering 
happier  things. 

1771  Tennyson  :  Locksley  Hall,  St.  3a 


272    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Soul. 

But  whither  went  his  soul,  let  such  relate 
Who  searcli  the  secrets  of  the  future  state. 

Dkyi>en  :  Palnmon  and  Arcite,  Bk.  iii., 

1772  Line  2120. 

It  is  the  Soul's  prerogative,  its  fate 
To  shape  the  outward  to  its  owu  estate. 

1773  R.  n.  Dana  :    Thoughts  on  the  Soul. 

The  gods  approve 
The  depth,  and  not  the  tumult,  of  the  soul. 

1774  WoRDSwouTH :  Laodamia. 

Sound. 

'T  is  not  enough  no  harshness  gives  offence,  — 
The  sound  must  seem  an  echo  to  the  sense. 

1775  Pope  :  E.  on  Criticism,  Pt.  ii.,  Line  162. 

Spain. 

Fair  land!  of  chivalry  the  old  domain, 
Land  of  the  vine  and  olive,  lovely  Spain ! 

Mrs.  Hemans:  Ahencerrage,  Canto  ii., 

1776  Line  1. 

Spear. 

His  spear,  to  equal  which  the  tallest  pine 
Hewn  on  Norwegian  hills  to  be  the  mast 
Of  some  great  ammiral  were  but  a  wand. 

1777  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  i..  Line  292. 

Speech. 

Rude  am  I  in  my  speech 
And  little  bless'd  with  the  soft  phrase  of  peace. 
1778 


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Speech  is  but  broken  light  upon  the  depth 
Of  the  unspoken ;  even  your  loved  words 
Float  in  the  larger  meaning  of  your  voice 
As  something  dimmer. 

1779  George  Eliot:  Spanish  Gypsy,  Bk.  1. 

Spenser. 

Xor  shall  my  verse  that  elder  bard  forget, 
The  gentle  Spenser,  fancy's  pleasing  son  ; 
Who,  like  a  copious  river,  poured  his  song 
O'er  all  the  mazes  of  enchanted  ground. 

1780  Thomson  :  Seasons,  Summer,  Line  1574. 

Spires. 

Ye  swelling  hills  and  spacious  plains ! 

Besprent  from  shore  to  shore  with  steeple  towers. 

And  spires  whose  "silent  finger  points  to  heaven." 

1781  Wordsworth  :  Excursion,  Bk.  vi.,  Line  17. 

Spirits. 

I  can  call  spirits  from  the  vasty  deep. 

Why,  so  can  I ;  or  so  can  any  man  : 

But  will  they  come,  when  you  do  call  for  them  ? 

1782  Shaks.  :  1  Henry  IV.,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

Millions  of  spiritual  creatures  walk  the  earth 
Unseen,  both  when  we  wake  and  when  we  sleep. 

1783  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  677. 

Splendor. 

Though  nothing  can  bring  back  the  hour 

Of  splendor  in  the  grass,  of  glory  in  the  flower. 

Wordsworth:  Intimations  of  Immortality. 

1784  St."  10 


274    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Sport. 

Thick  around 
Tliunders  the  sport  of  those,  who  with  the  gun 
And  dog,  impatient  bounding  at  tlie  sliot, 
AV'orse  tiian  tlie  season  desolate  the  fields. 

1785  Thomson  :  Seasons,  Winter,  Line  788. 

Spring. 

In  the  spring  a  livelier  iris  changes  on  the  burnish'd 

dove; 
In  the  spring  a  young  man's  fancy  lightly  turns  to 

thoughts  of  love. 

1786  Tenxyson  :  Locksleij  Hall,  Line  19. 

Come,  gentle  Spring,  ethereal  mildness,  come; 
And  from  the  bosom  of  your  dropping  cloud, 
While  music  wakes  around,  veiled  in  a  shower 
Of  shadowing  roses,  on  our  plains  descend. 

1787  Thomson:  Seasons,  Spring,  Line  1. 

"  Come,  gentle  Spring !  ethereal  mildness,  come  I " — 
Oh  !  Thomson,  void  of  rhyme  as  well  as  reason, 
How  could'st  thou  thus  poor  human  nature  hum? 
There  's  no  such  season. 

1788  Hood:  Spring, 

Stage. 

All  the  world's  a  stage, 
And  all  the  men  and  women  merely  players, 
They  have  their  exits  and  their  entrances; 
And  one  man  in  his  time  plays  many  parts, 
His  acts  being  seven  ages. 

1789  Shaks.  :  As  You  Like  It,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  7. 

Stars. 

Two  stars  keep  not  their  motion  in  one  sphere. 

1790  Shaks.  :  1  Henry  I V.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  4. 


The  stars  of  the  night 

Will  lend  thee  their  light, 

Like  tapers  clear  without  number  ! 

1791  Herrick:  A  ph.  Night  Piece,  To  Julia. 

Ye  stars  !  which  are  the  poetry  cf  Heaven, 
If  in  your  bright  leaves  we  would  read  the  fate 
Of  men  and  empires,  —  't  is  to  be  fprgiveii, 
That  in  our  aspirations  to  be  great, 
Our  destinies  o'erleap  their  mortal  state, 
And  claim  a  kindred  with  you. 

1792  Byron:   C^.  i/aroW,  Canto  iii.,  St.  88. 

Now  only  here  and  there  a  little  star 
Looks  forth  alone. 

William  Cullen  Bryant  :   The  Con- 

1793  stellations. 

State. 

A  thousand  years  scarce  serve  to  form  a  state : 
An  hour  may  lay  it  in  the  dust. 

1794  Byron  :  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  ii.,  St.  8i. 

Statesman. 

An  honest  statesman  to  a  prince, 
Ls  like  a  cedar  planted  by  a  spring; 
The  spring  bathes  the  tree's  root,  the  grateful  tree 
Rewards  it  with  his  shadow. 

1795  AVebster  :  Duchess  of  Malji,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

Steed. 

Hurrah,  hurrah  for  Sheridan  ! 

Hurrah,  hurrah  for  horse  and  man ! 

And  when  their  statues  are  placed  on  high, 

Under  the  dome  of  the  Union  sky,  — 

The  American  soldier's  Temple  of  Fame, — 

There  with  the  glorious  General's  name 


276    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Be  it  said  in  letters  both  bold  and  bright : 
"  Here  is  the  steed  that  saved  the  day 
By  carrying  Sheridan  into  the  fight, 
From  Winchester,  —  twenty  miles  away  !  " 

1796  Thomas  Buchanan  Read  :  Sheridan's  Ride. 

Stones. 

Put  a  tongue 
In  every  wound  of  Cresar  that  should  move 
The  stones  of  Rome  to  rise  and  nmtiny. 

1797  Shaks.  :  Jul  Ccesar,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

Storms. 

We  often  see,  against  some  storm, 
A  silence  in  the  heavens,  the  rack  stand  still. 
The  bold  winds  speechless,  and  the  orb  below 
As  hush  as  death. 

1798  Shaks.:  Hamlet,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

God  moves  in  a  mysterious  way 

His  wonders  to  perform ; 
He  plants  his  footsteps  in  the  sea 

And  rides  upon  the  storm. 

1799  CowPER  :  Light  Shining  out  of  Darkness, 

Nail  to  the  mast  her  holy  flag, 

Set  every  threadbare  sail, 
And  give  her  to  the  god  of  storms, 

The  lightning  and  the  gale ! 

1800  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes:  Old  Ironsides. 

Story. 

Her  father  loved  me;  oft  invited  me; 
Still  question 'd  me  the  story  of  my  life. 
From  year  to  year,  the  battles,  sieges,  fortune , 
That  i  have  passed. 

1801  Shaks.  :  Othello,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 


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She  thank'd  me, 
And  bade  me,  if  I  had  a  friend  that  loved  her, 
I  should  but  teach  him  how  to  tell  my  story, 
And  that  would  woo  her. 

1802  Shaks.  :  Othello,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

Strangers. 

By  foreign  hands  thy  dying  eyes  were  clos'd, 
By  foreign  hands  thy  decent  limbs  compos'd, 
By  foreign  hands  thy  humble  grave  adorn'd, 
By  strangers  honored,  and  by  strangers  mourn'd. 

Pope  :   To  the  Memory  of  an  Unfortunate 

1803  Lady,  Line  51. 

Streets. 

The  graves  stood  tenantless,  and  the  sheeted  dead 
Did  squeak  and  gibber  in  the  Roman  streets. 

1804  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Strength. 

O,  it  is  excellent 
"  To  have  a  giant's  strength ;  but  it  is  tyrannous 
To  use  it  like  a  giant. 

"    1805  Shaks.  :  M.  for  M.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

To  be  strong 
Is  to  be  happy  ! 

Longfellow  :  Christus,  Golden  Legend, 

1806  rt.  ii. 

Strife. 

No  fears  to  beat  away,  no  strife  to  heal, — 
The  past  unsighed  for,  and  the  future  sure. 

1807  Wordsworth  :  Laodamia. 


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Striving. 

How  far  your  ej'es  may  pierce  I  cannot  tell ; 
Striving  to  better,  oft  we  mar  what 's  well. 

1808  Shaks.  :  King  Lear,  Act  i.,  Sc.  4. 

Study. 

Study  is  like  the  heaven's  glorious  sun, 
That  will  not  be  deep-search 'd  with  saucy  looks ; 
Small  have  continual  plodders  ever  won, 
Save  base  authority  from  others'  books. 

1809  Shaks.:  Love's  L.  Lost,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

If  not  to  some  peculiar  end  design'd 
Study  's  the  specious  trifling  of  the  mind, 
Or  is  at  best  a  secondary  aim, 
A  chase  for  sport  alone,  and  not  for  game. 

1810  Young  :  Love  of  Fame,  Satire  ii..  Line  67. 

Style. 

The  lives  of  trees  lie  only  in  the  barks. 

And  in  their  styles  the  wit  of  greatest  clerks. 

BuTLKR  :  Sal.  on  Abuse  of  Human  Learning, 

1811  Line  211. 

Success. 

Didst  thou  never  hear 

That  things  ill  got  had  ever  bad  success? 

1812  Shaks.  :  3  Henry  VL,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

Life  lives  only  in  success. 

1813  Bayard  Taylor:  Amran's  Wooing,  St.  5. 

'T  is  not  in  mortals  to  command  success; 

But  we  '11  do  more,  Sempronius  —  we  '11  deserve  it. 

1814  Addison  :  Calo,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 


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Suffering. 

Yet  tears  to  human  suffering  are  due  ; 
And  mortal  hopes  defeated  and  o'erthrowu 
Are  mourned  by  man,  and  not  by  man  alone. 

1815  Wordsworth  :  Laodamia. 

Suicide. 

Why,  he  that  cuts  off  twenty  years  of  life 
Cuts  off'  so  many  years  of  fearing  death. 

1816  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Cctsar,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

—  He 

That  kills  himself  to  avoid  misery,  fears  it ; 
And  at  the  best  shows  but  a  bastard  valor. 

1817  Massinger  :  Maid  of  Honor,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

Summer. 

Eternal  summer  gilds  them  yet, 
But  all  except  their  sun  is  set. 

1818  Byron  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  iii.,  St.  86.  1. 

It  is  a  sultry  day ;  the  sun  has  drunk 
The  dew  that  lay  upon  the  morning  grass ; 
There  is  no  rustling  in  the  lofty  ehn 
That  canopies  my  dwelling,  and  its  shade 
Scarce  cools  me.     All  is  silent,  save  the  faint 
And  interrupted  murmur  of  the  bee. 
Settling  on  the  sick  flowers,  and  then  again 
Instantly  on  the  wing. 

1819  William  Cullex  Bryant  :  Summer  Wind. 

Sim. 

The  glorious  sun, 
Stays  in  his  course,  and  plays  the  alchemist ; 
Turning,  with  splendor  of  his  precious  eye. 
The  meagre  cloddy  earth  to  glittering  gold. 

1820  Shaks,  :  King  John,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 


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Busy  old  fool,  unruly  sun, 

Why  dost  tliou  thus, 

Tlirough  ^vindo^vs  and  through  curtains  call  on  us? 

1821  John  Donne  :   The  Sun-Rising. 

My  own  hope  is,  a  sun  will  pierce 
The  thickest  cloud  earth  ever  stretched. 

1822  RoiJERT  Browning:  Appm^ent  Failure, vii. 

Sunflower. 

Light  enchanted  sunflower,  thou 
Who  gazest  ever  true  and  tender 
On  the  sun's  revolving  splendor  1 


Restless  sunflowers,  cease  to  move. 

Shellp:y  :  Tr.  of  "  Magico  Prodiqioso  "  of 
1823  C  alder  on,  Sc.  3. 


The  heart  that  has  truly  lov'd  never  forgets, 
But  as  truly  loves  on  to  the  close, 
As  the  sunflower  turns  on  her  god  when  he  sets 
The  same  look  which  she  turn'd  when  he  rose. 

MoORE  :  Believe  Me,  If  all  T/iose  Endearing 

1824  Young  Charms. 

]\Iiles  and  miles  of  gold  and  green 
AVhere  the  sunflowers  blow 
In  a  solid  glow. 

1825  Robert  Browning  :  Lovers'  Quarrel,  St.  6. 


Unloved,  the  sunflower,  shining  fair, 
Ray  round  with  flames  her  disk  of  seed. 

1826  Tennyson  :  In  Memoriam,  Pt.  ci.,  St.  2. 


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Sunrise. 

When  from,  the  openhig  chambers  of  the  east 
The  morning  springs  in  thousand  liveries  drest, 
The  early  larks  their  morning  tribute  pay, 
And,  in  shrill  notes,  salute  the  blooming  day. 

1827  Thomson  :    The  Morning  in  the  Country. 

'T  is  morn.     Behold  the  kingly  Day  now  leaps 
The  eastern  wall  of  earth  with  sword  in  hand, 
Clad  in  a  flowing  robe  of  mellow  light. 
Like  to  a  king  that  has  regain'd  his  throne, 
He  warms  his  drooping  subjects  into  joy. 
That  rise  rejoiced  to  do  him  fealty, 
And  rules  with  pomp  the  universal  world. 

1828  Joaquin  Miller  :  Ina,  So.  2. 

Sunset. 

The  weary  sun  hath  made  a  golden  set. 
And,  by  the  bright  track  of  his  fiery  car. 
Gives  token  of  a  goodly  day  to-morrow. 

1829  Shaks.  :  Richard  III.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  3. 

O  the  wondrous  golden  sunset  of  the  blest  October 
day. 

1830  Julia  C.  R.  Dorr  :   Margery  Grey,  St.  24. 

The  descending  sun 
Seems  to  caress  the  city  that  he  loves, 
And  crowns  it  with  the  aureole  of  a  saint. 

1831  Longfellow:  Michael  Angela,  Ft.  i.,  2. 

The  sun  is  going  down. 
And  I  must  see  the  glory  from  the  hill. 

1832  George  Eliot  :  Agatha. 


282    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Sunshine. 

See  the  gold  sunshine  patching, 
And  streaming  and  streaking  across 
The  gray-green  oaks  ;  and  catching, 
By  its  soft  brown  beard,  the  moss. 

1833  Bailey  :  Festiis,  Sc.  The  Surface. 

As  sunshine  broken  in  the  rill, 
Though  turned  astray,  is  sunshine  still. 

1834  Moore:   The  Fire-Worsldppers, 

Surfett. 

As  surfeit  is  the  father  of  much  fast. 
So  every  scope,  by  the  immoderate  use, 
Turns  to  restraint. 

1835  Shaks.  :  M.for  M.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

Surprise. 

The  fool  of  nature  stood  with  stupid  eyes 
And  gaping  mouth,  that  testified  surprise. 

1836  Dryden  :   Cymon  and  Iphigenia,  Line  41. 

Suspense. 

For  thee  the  fates,  severely  kind,  ordain 

A  cool  suspense,  from  pleasure  and  from  pain. 

1837  Pope  :  Eloisa  to  A.,  Line  249. 

Suspicion. 

Suspicion  always  haunts  the  guilty  mind  ; 
The  thief  doth  fear  each  bush  an  officer. 

1838  Shaks.  :  3  Henry  VI.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  6. 


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S-wallovr. 

When  Autumn  scatters  his  departing  gleams, 
^Va^ned  of  approaching  Winter,  gathered,  play 
The  swallow-people  ;  and  tossed  wide  around 
O'er  the  calm  sky,  in  convolution  swift, 
The  feathered  eddy  floats  ;  rejoicing  once, 
Ere  to  their  wintry  slumbers  they  retire. 

1839  Thomson:   Seasons,  Autumn,  Line  836. 

S"wans. 

The  swan,  with  arched  neck 
Between  her  white  wings  mantling  proudly,  rows 
Her  state  with  oary  feet. 

1840  Milton:  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  vii.,  Line  438. 

S-wearing. 

And  being  thus  frighted  swears  a  prayer  or  two 
And  sleeps  again. 

1841  Shaks.  :  Rom.  and  Jul.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  4. 

Take  not  His  name,  who  made  thy  mouth,  in  vain  ; 
It  gets  thee  nothing,  and  hath  no  excuse. 

1842  Herbert:  Temple,  Church  Porch,  St.  10. 

S-weetness. 

Things  sweet  to  taste  prove  in  digestion  sour. 

1843  Shaks.  :  Richard  11. ,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

Married  to  immortal  verse. 
Such  as  the  meeting  soul  may  pierce, 
Li  notes  with  many  a  winding  bout 
Of  linked  sweetness  long  drawn  out. 

1844  Milton:  L' Allegro,  Line  I'do. 


284    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

S-wiftness. 

I  go,  I  go ;  look  how  T  go ; 

Swifter  than  urrow  from  the  Tartar's  bow. 

1845  Shaks,  :   Mid.  iV.  Dream,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

His  golden  locks  time  hath  to  silver  tnrned  ; 
O  time  too  swift  I     O  swiftness  never  ceasing! 

1846  George  Peele  :  Sonnet,  Polyhymnia. 

STvimming. 

How  many  a  time  have  I 
Cloven  with  arm  still  lustier,  breast  more  daring, 
The  wave  all  roughened  ;  with  a  swimmer's  stroke 
Flinging  the  billows  back  from  my  drench 'd  hair, 
And  laughing  from  my  lip  the  audacious  brine, 
Which  kiss'd  it  like  a  wine-cup,  rising  o'er 
The  waves  as  they  arose,  and  prouder  still 
The  loftier  they  uplifted  me. 

1847  Byron  :  Two  Foscari,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

S-word. 

Full  bravely  hast  thou  fleshed 
Thy  maiden  sword, 

1848  Shaks.  :  1  Henry  IV.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  4. 

Chase  brave  employment  with  a  naked  sword 

Throughout  the  world. 

1819  Herbert:  The  Church  Porch. 

Sympathy. 

Thou  hast  given  me,  in  this  beauteous  face, 

A  world  of  earthly  blessings  to  my  soul. 

If  sympathy  of  love  unite  our  thoughts. 

1850  Shaks.  :  2  Henry  VI.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 


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There  's  nought  in  this  bad  world  like  sympathy  : 
'T  is  so  becoming  to  the  soul  and  face  — 
Sets  to  soft  music  the  harmonious  sigh, 
And  robes  sweet  friendship  in  a  Brussels  lace. 

1851  Byron  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  xiv.,  St.  47. 

Synods. 

Synods  are  mj^stical  bear-gardens, 
Where  elders,  deputies,  church-wardens, 
And  other  members  of  tlie  court, 
Manage  the  Babylonish  sport. 

Butler  :  Hudihras,  Ft.  i.,  Canto  iii., 

1852  Line  1095. 


T. 

Tale. 

Who  so  shall  telle  a  tale  after  a  man, 

He  moste  reherse,  as  neighe  as  ever  he  can, 

Everich  word,  if  it  be  in  his  charge, 

All  speke  he  never  so  rudely  and  so  large. 

Chaucer  :   Canterbury  Tales,  Prologue, 
1853  Line  733. 


But  that  T  am  forbid 
To  tell  the  secrets  of  my  prison-house, 
I  could  a  tale  unfold,  whose  lightest  word 
Would  harrow  up  thy  soul. 

1854  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  So.  5. 


I  will  a  round  unvarnish'd  tale  deliver 
Of  my  whole  course  of  love. 

1855  Shaks.  :  Othello,  Act  1.,  Sc.  3. 


286    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Meet  me  by  moonlight  alone, 

And  then  I  will  tell  you  a  tale 
Must  be  told  by  the  moonlight  alone, 

In  the  grove  at  the  end  of  the  vale! 

1856  J.  A.  Wade  :  Meet  Me  by  Moonlight. 

Talk. 

We  will  not  stand  to  prate; 
Talkers  are  no  good  doers;  be  assured 
We  go  to  use  our  hands,  and  not  our  tongues. 

1857  Shaks.  :  Richard  III.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  :^. 

But  still  his  tongue  ran  on,  the  less 
Of  weight  it  bore,  witli  greater  ease 
And  with  its  everlasting  clack, 
Set  all  men's  ears  upon  the  rack. 

Butler  :  Hudihras,  Ft.  in.,  Canto  ii., 

1858  Line  443. 

They  always  talk  who  never  think. 

Prior  :    Upo7i  this  Passage  in  the  Scali- 

1859  geriana. 

Where  Nature's  end  of  language  is  declin'd, 
And  men  talk  only  to  conceal  the  mind. 

1860  Young  :  Love  of  Fame,  Satire  ii..  Line  207. 

It  would  talk,  — 
Lord  I  how  it  talked  ! 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher  :  Scornful 

1861  Ladg,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Tasso. 

Tasso  is  their  glory  and  their  shame. 
Hark  to  his  strain  !  and  then  survey  his  cell  I 
And  see  how  dearly  earn'd  Torquato's  fame, 
And  where  Alfonso  bade  his  poet  dwell. 

1862  Byron  :   Ck.  Harold,  Canto  iv.,  St.  36. 


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Taste. 

Talk  what  you  will  of  taste,  my  friend,  you  '11  find 
Two  of  a  face  as  soon  as  of  a  mind. 

1863  Pope  :  Satire  vi.,  Line  268. 

(yood  native  Taste,  tho'  lude,  is  seldom  wrong, 
Be  it  in  music,  painting,  or  in  song  : 
But  this,  as  well  as  other  faculties, 
Improves  with  age  and  ripens  by  degrees. 

1864  Armstrong  :   Taste,  Line  26 

Such  and  so  various  are  the  tastes  of  men. 

Akenside  :  PL  of  the  Imagination,  Bk.  iii., 

1865  Line  567. 

Taxation. 

By  heaven,  I  had  rather  coin  my  heart. 
And  drop  my  blood  for  drachmas,  than  to  wring 
From  the  hard  hands  of  peasants  their  vile  trash, 
By  any  indirection. 

1866  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  iv.,  So.  3. 

Who  nothing  has  to  lose,  the  war  bewails; 
And  he  who  nothing  pays,  at  taxes  rails. 

CoNGREVE  :  Epis.  to  Sir  Richard  T'emple. 

1867  Of  Pleasing,  Line  17. 

Tea. 

For  her  own  breakfast  she  '11  project  a  scheme, 
Xor  take  her  tea  without  a  stratagem. 

1868  Young:  Love  of  Fame,  Satire  vi.,  Line  190. 

Teaching. 

I  have  labored, 
And  with  no  little  study,  that  my  teaching 
And  the  strong  course  of  my  authority 
Might  go  one  way. 

1869  SuAKS. :  Henry  VIII.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  2. 


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Tears. 

The  big  round  tears 
Cours'd  one  another  down  his  innocent  nose 
In  piteous  chase. 

1870  Shaks.  :  As  You  Like  It,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Then  fresh  tears 
Stood  on  her  cheeks,  as  doth  the  honey-dew 
Upon  a  gather'd  lily  almost  wither'd, 

1871  Shaks.  :  Titus  AjuL,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

Our  present  tears  here,  not  our  present  laughter, 
Are  but  the  handsells  of  our  joys  hereafter. 

1872  IIeruick  :  Noble  Numbers,  Tears. 

Thrice  he  assay'd,  and  thrice  in  spite  of  scorn, 
Tears,  such  as  angels  weep,  burst  forth. 

1873  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  i..  Line  619. 

A  child  will  weep  a  bramble's  smart, 
A  maid  to  see  her  sparrow  part, 
A  stripling  for  a  woman's  heart : 
Hut  woe  aw^aits  a  country,  when 
She  sees  the  tears  of  bearded  men. 

1874  Scott  :  Marmion,  Canto  v.,  St,  16. 

To  me  the  meanest  flower  that  blows  can  give 
Thoughts  that  do  often  lie  too  deep  for  tears. 

1875  WORDSWORTFI  :   Intimations  of  Immorta/ili/. 

Tears,  idle  tears,  I  know  not  what  they  mean, 
Tears  from  the  depth  of  some  divine  despair 
Rise  in  the  heart,  and  gather  to  the  eyes. 
In  looking  on  the  hap]>y  Autumn  fields. 
And  thinking  of  the  days  that  are  no  more, 

1876  Tennyson  :  The  Princess,  Pt.  iv,,  Line  21. 


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Beauty's  tears  are  lovelier  than  her  smile. 

1877  Campbell:  PL  of  Hope,  Pt.  i.,  Line  180. 

Under  the  sod  and  the  dew, 

Waiting  the  judgment  day; 
Love  and  tears  for  the  Blue, 

Tears  and  love  for  the  Gray. 

1878  Francis  M.  Fixch  :  The  Blue  ayid  the  Gray. 

Tempsr. 

Ye  gods,  it  doth  amaze  me 
A  man  of  such  a  feeble  temper  should 
So  get  the  start  of  the  majestic  world 
And  bear  the  palm  alone. 

1879  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

Temperance. 

Temp'rate  in  every  place, —  abroad,  at  home. 
Thence  will  applause,  and  hence  will  profit  come; 
And  health  from  either  —  he  in  time  prepares 
For  sickness,  age,  and  their  attendant  cares. 

1880  Crabbe:  The  Borough, Letterxvu.,Lmel98. 

Tempests. 

The  southern  wind 
Doth  play  the  trumpet  to  his  purposes ; 
And.  by  his  hollow  whistling  in  the  leaves, 
Foretells  a  tempest  and  a  blustering  day. 

1881  Shaks.  :  1  Henry  IV.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Suddeine  they  see  fi-oin  midst  of  all  the  maine 
The  surging  waters  like  a  mountaine  rise. 
And  the  great  sea  puft  up  with  proud  disdaine, 
To  swell  above  the  measure  of  his  guise, 
As  threatning  to  devoure  all  that  his  powre  despise. 
Spenser  :  Faerie  Queene.  Bk.ii.,  Canto  xii., 

1882  St.  21. 


290    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

From  cloud  to  cloud  the  rending  lightnings  rage ; 
Till,  in  the  furious  elemental  war 
Dissolv'd,  the  whole  precipitated  mass, 
Unbroken  floods  and  solid  torrents  pours. 

1883  Thomson  :  Seasons,  Summer,  Line  799. 


The  sky 
Is  overcast,  and  musters  muttering  thunder. 
In  clouds  that  seem  approaching  fast,  and  show 
In  forked  flashes  a  commanding  tempest. 

1884  Byron  :  Sardanapalus,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

Temptation. 

Oftentimes,  to  win  us  to  our  harm. 
The  instruments  of  darkness  tell  us  truths; 
Win  us  with  honest  trifles,  to  betray  us 
In  deepest  consequence. 

1885  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 


'T  is  the  temptation  of  the  devil 
That  makes  all  human  actions  evil; 
For  saints  may  do  the  same  things  by 
The  spirit,  in  sincerity. 
Which  other  men  are  tempted  to, 
And  at  the  devil's  instance  do : 
And  yet  the  actions  be  contrary, 
Just  as  the  saints  and  wicked  vary. 

Butler  :  Hudihras,  Pt.  ii..  Canto  ii., 
1886  Line  233. 


Safe  from  temptation,  safe  from  sin's  pollution, 
She  lives  whom  we  call  dead. 

1887  Longfellow  :  Resignation. 


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Tenderness. 

Higher  than  the  perfect  song 
For  which  love  longeth, 
Is  the  tender  fear  of  wrong, 
That  never  wrongeth. 

1888  Bayard  Taylor  :  Improvisations,  Pt.  v. 

Tents. 

Shall  fold  their  tents  like  the  Arabs, 
And  as  silently  steal  away. 

1889  Longfellow  :   The  Day  is  Done. 

Terror. 

There  is  no  terror,  Cassius,  in  your  threats. 

1890  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

Test. 

Bring  me  to  the  test, 
And  I  the  matter  will  re-word. 

1891  Shaks.  :  Hamlet^  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 

Text. 

And  many  a  holy  text  around  she  strews, 
That  teach  the  rustic  moralist  to  die. 

1892  Gray:  Elegy,  St.  21. 

Thankfulness. 

The  poorest  service  is  repaid  with  thanks. 

1893  Shaks.  :   Tam.  of  the  S.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

Thanks  to  men 
Of  noble  minds,  is  honorable  meed. 

1894  Shaks.  :   Titus  And.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 


292    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Theatre. 

As  in  a  theatre,  the  eyes  of  men, 
After  a  well-graced  actor  leaves  the  stage, 
Are  idly  bent  on  him  that  enters  next, 
Thinking  his  prattle  to  be  tedious. 

1895  Shaks.  :  Richard  II.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  5. 

Thief. 

The  robb'd  that  smiles,  steals  something  from  the 
thief. 

1896  Shaks.  :  Othello,  Act  i.,  Sc.  3. 

Thirst. 

That  panting  thirst,  which  scorches  in  the  breath 
Of  those  that  die  the  soldier's  fiery  death. 
In  vain  impels  the  burning  mouth  to  crave 
One  drop  —  the  last  —  to  cool  it  for  the  grave. 

1897  Byron:  Lara,  Canto  ii.,  St.  16. 

Thorn. 

Why  are  we  fond  of  toil  and  care? 
AVhy  choose  the  rankling  thorn  to  w^ear? 

1898  J.  M.  UsTERi :  Life  let  us  Cherish. 

Thought. 

Our  thoughts  are  ours,  their  ends  none  of  our  own. 

1899  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

Thought  alone  is  eternal. 

Owen  Meredith  :  Lucile,  Pt.  ii..  Canto  v., 

1900  St.  16. 

No  thought  which  ever  stirred 
A  human  breast  should  be  untold. 

1901  Robert  Browning  :  Paracelsus,  Sc.  2. 


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Thought  leapt  out  to  wed  with  Thought 
Ere  Thought  could  wed  itself  with  Speech. 

1902  Tennyson  :  In  Memoriam,  Pt.  xxiii.,  St.  4. 

Thought  is  deeper  than  all  speech, 

Feeling  deeper  than  all  thought ; 
Souls  to  souls  can  never  teach 

What  unto  themselves  was  taught. 

1903  Christopher  P.  Cranch  :  Stanzas. 

Thread. 

Sewing  at  once  a  double  thread, 
A  shroud  as  well  as  a  shirt. 

1904  Rood  :  Song  of  the  Shirt. 

Threats. 

If  thou  more  murmur'st,  I  will  rend  an  oak, 
And  peg  thee  in  his  knotty  entrails,  till 
Thou  hast  howl'd  away  twelve  winters. 

1905  Shaks.  :  Tempest,  Act  i.,  So.  2. 

Back  to  thy  punishment, 
False  fugitive,  and  to  thy  speed  add  wings, 
Lest  with  a  whip  of  scorpions  I  pursue 
•   Thy  ling'ring. 

1906  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  699. 

Thrift. 

Thrift,  thrift,  Horatio !  the  funeral  baked  meats 
Did  coldly  furnish  forth  the  marriage  tables. 

1907  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

Throne. 

High  on  a  throne  of  royal  state,  which  far 
Outshone  the  wealth  of  Ornius  and  of  Ind. 

1908  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  1. 


294    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Thunder. 

And  threat'ning  France,  plac'd  like  a  painted  Jove, 
Kept  idle  thunder  in  his  lilted  hand. 

1909  Dryden  :  Annus  Mirabilis,  St.  39. 

Far  along, 
From  peak  to  peak,  the  rattling  crags  among, 
Leaps  the  live  thunder. 

1910  Byron  :   Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iii.,  St.  92. 

Tide. 

Even  at  the  turning  o'  the  tide. 

1911  Shaks.  :  Henry  V.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  3. 

There  is  a  tide  in  the  affairs  of  men 

Which  taken  at  the  flood,  leads  on  to  fortune. 

1912  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

Time. 

I  wasted  time,  and  now  doth  time  waste  me. 

1913  Shaks.  :  Richard  II.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  5. 

Gather  ye  rosebuds  while  ye  may, 

Old  time  is  still  a-flying ; 
And  this  same  flower  that  smiles  to-day, 

To-morrow  will  be  dying. 

Herrick  :   To  Vlr<jins  to  Make  Much  of 

1914  Time. 

Threefold  the  stride  of  Time,  from  first  to  last  1 
Loitering  slow,  the  Future  creepeth  — 
Arrow-swift,  the  Present  sweepeth  — 
And  motionless  forever  stands  the  Past. 

1915  Schiller  :  Sentences  of  Confucius,  Time. 


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Tithes. 

This  priest  he  merry  is  and  blithe 

Three  quarters  of  a  year, 
But  oh  I  it  cuts  him  like  a  scythe, 

When  tithing-time  draws  near. 

1916  CowPER  :  Yearly  Distress,  St.  2. 

Titles. 

We  all  are  soldiers,  and  all  venture  lives ; 

And  where  there  is  no  difference  iu  men's  worth, 

Titles  are  jests. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher  :  King  or  No 

1917  King,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Titles  are  marks  of  honest  men  and  wise ; 
The  fool  or  knave  that  wears  a  title,  lies. 

1918  Young:  Love  of  Fame,  Satire  i.,  Line  137o 

Toad. 

Squat  like  a  toad,  close  at  the  ear  of  Eve. 

1919  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iv..  Line  800. 

Tobacco. 

Sublime  tobacco  !  which  from  east  to  west 
Cheers  the  tar's  labor  or  the  Turkman's  rest. 

1920  Byron  :   The  Lsland,  Canto  ii.,  St.  19. 

To-day. 

Happy  the  man  and  happy  he  alone. 
He  who  can  call  to-day  his  own. 

Dryden  :  Lm.  of  Horace,  Bk.  iii.,  Ode  29, 

1921  Line  65. 

Our  cares  are  all  To-day,  our  joys  are  all  To-day ; 
And  in  one  little  word,  our  life,  what  is  it  but  — 
To-day? 

1922  Tupper:  Proverbial  Phil,  of  To-day 


296    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  gUOTATIOXS. 

ToU. 

No  man  is  born  into  the  world  whose  work 
Is  not  born  with  him.     There  is  always  work, 
And  tools  to  work  withal,  for  those  who  will ; 
And  blessed  are  the  horny  hands  of  toil. 

James  Russell  Lowell:  A  Glance  Behind 

1923  the  Curtain. 

Tomb. 

E'en  from  the  tomb  the  voice  of  nature  cries, 
E'en  in  our  ashes  live  their  wonted  fires. 

1924  Gray  :  Elegy,  St.  23. 

To-inorro"w. 

To-morrow,  and  to-morrow,  and  to-morrow, 
Creeps  in  this  petty  pace  from  day  to  day, 
To  the  last  syllable  of  recorded  time; 
And  all  our  yesterdays  have  lighted  fools 
The  way  to  dusty  death. 

1925  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  v..  So.  5. 

Defer  not  till  to-morrow  to  be  wise. 
To-morrow's  sun  on  thee  may  never  rise. 

1926  CoxGREVE  :  Letter  to  Cohham. 

To-morrow  comes  and  we  are  where? 
Then  let  us  live  to-day. 

1927  Schiller:   The  Victory  Feast,  St.  13. 

Where  art  thou,  beloved  To-morrow  ? 

Whom  young  and  old,  and  strong  and  weak, 

Rich  and  poor,  through  joy  and  sorrow, 

Thy  sweet  smiles  we  ever  seek  — 

In  thy  place  —  ah  !  well-a-day  ! 

We  find  the  tiling  we  fled  —  To-day. 

1928  Shelley  :   To-morrow. 


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Tongue. 

While  thou  livest,  keep  a  good  tongue  in  thy  head. 

1929  SiiAKS. :   Tempest,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

No,  let  the  candied  tongue  lick  absurd  pomp, 
And  crook  the  pregnant  hinges  of  the  knee 
Where  thrift  may  follow  fawning. 

1930  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

Sacred  interpreter  of  human  thought, 
How  few  respect  or  use  thee  as  they  ought ! 
But  all  shall  give  account  of  every  wrong. 
Who  dare  dishonor  or  defile  the  tongue. 

1931  CowPER  :    Conversation,  Line  23. 

Tools. 

For  all  a  rhetorician's  rules 

Teach  nothing  but  to  name  his  tools. 

1932  Butler  :  Hudibras,  Pt.  i.,  Canto  i..  Line  89. 

Toothache. 

There  was  never  yet  philosopher 

That  could  endure  the  toothache  patiently. 

1933  Shaks.  :  Much  Ado,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

Torrent. 

So  the  loud  torrent  and  the  whirlwind's  roar 
But  bind  him  to  his  native  mountains  more. 
1931:  Goldsmith:    Traveller,  Liwq  2\1  . 

Torture. 

The  hell  of  waters !  where  they  howl  and  hiss, 

And  boil  in  endless  torture. 

1935  Byron  :   Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iv.,  St.  69. 


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Towers. 

Towers  and  battlements  it  sees 
Bosom'd  high  in  tufted  trees. 

1936  Milton  :  L' Allegro,  Line  75. 

Town. 

(iod  made  the  country,  and  man  made  the  town. 

1937  Cowpek:  Task,  Bk  i.,  Line  749. 

Toys. 

Seeks  painted  trifles  and  fantastic  toys, 
And  eagerly  pursues  imaginary  joys. 

1938  Akenside:  Virtuoso,  St.  \0. 

Trade. 

But  times  are  altered;  trade's  unfeeling  train 
Usurp  the  land,  and  dispossess  the  swain; 
Along  the  lawn,  where  scatter'd  hamlets  rose, 
Unwieldy  wealth  and  cumbrous  pomp  repose. 

1939  Goldsmith  :  Des.  Village,  Line  63. 

Trade's  proud  empire  hastes  to  swift  decay. 

Dr.  Johnson:  Line  added  to  Goldsmifh^s 

1910  Des.  Village. 

Tranquillity. 

Like  ships  that  have  gone  down  at  sea 
When  heaven  was  all  tranquillity. 

1911  MooRE  :  Lalla  Rookh,  The  Light  of  the  Harem. 

Traveller  —  Travelling. 

Now  spurs  the  lated  traveller  apace 
To  gain  the  timely  inn. 

1912  Shaks.  :  Macbeth,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  3. 


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When  I  was  at  home,  I  was  in  a  better  place ; 
But  traveUers  must  be  content. 

1943  Shaks.:  As  You  Like  It,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  4. 

In  travelling 
I  shape  myself  betimes  to  idleness 
And  take  fools'  pleasures.  .  .  . 

1944  George  Eliot:  Spanish  Gypsy,  Bk.  i. 

Treason. 

Then  I,  and  you.  and  all  of  us  fell  down, 
Whilst  bloody  treason  flourish 'd  over  us. 

1945  Shaks.:  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

So  Judas  kiss'd  his  master, 
And  cried  —  All  hail !  when  as  he  meant  —  all  harm. 

1946  Shaks.:  3  Henry  VT.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  7. 

Treason  doth  never  prosper  :  what 's  the  reason? 
Why,  if  it  prosper,  none  dare  call  it  treason. 

Sir  John  Harrington  :  Epigrams,  Bk.  iv., 

1947  Epigram  5. 

Treason  is  not  own'd  when  't  is  descried; 
■  Successful  crimes  alone  are  justified. 

1948  Dryden:  Medals,  Line  207. 

Treasure. 

The  unsunn'd  heaps 
Of  miser's  treasure. 

1949  Milton  :   Cornus,  Line  398. 

Trees. 

Trees  can  smile  in  light  at  the  sinking  sun 
Just  as  the  storm  comes,  as  a  girl  would  look 
On  a  departing  lover — most  serene. 

1950  Robert  Browning:  Pau/me,  Line  726 


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The  groves  were  God's  first  temples.      Ere  man 

learned 
To  hew  the  shaft,  and  lay  the  architrave, 
And  spread  the  roof  above  them. 

1951  William  Cullen  Bryant:  Forest  Hymn. 

Sure  thou  didst  flourish  once !  and  many  springs, 
Many  bright  mornings,  much  dew,  many  showers, 
Passed  o'er  thy  head;  many  light  hearts  and  wings, 
Which  now  are  dead,  lodg'd  in  thy  living  bowers. 

1952  Henry  Vaughan:  The  Timber. 

A  brotherhood  of  venerable  trees. 

1953  Wordsworth:  Sonnet  composed  at Castle. 

Trial. 

We  learn  through  trial. 

1954  Margaret  J.  Preston:  Attainment,  St.  7. 

Trifles. 

Since  trifles  make  the  sum  of  human  things, 
And  half  our  misery  from  our  foibles  springs. 

1955  Hannah  More:  Sensibility. 

Think  nought  a  trifle,  though  it  small  appear; 
Small  sands  the  mountain,  moments  make  the  year; 
And  trifles  life. 

1956  Young  :  Love  of  Fame,  Satire  vi.,  Line  193. 

Triumph. 

Wliy  comes  temptation,  but  for  man  to  meet 
And  master,  and  make  crouch  beneath  his  foot, 
And  so  be  pedestaled  in  triumph  ? 

Robert  Browning  :  The  Ring  and  the  Book, 

1957  Line  1185. 


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Trouble. 

Double,  double  toil  and  trouble, 
Fire  burn,  and  cauldron  bubble. 

1958  Shaks.  :  Macbeth^  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

To  be,  or  not  to  be :  that  is  the  question  : 
AVhether  't  is  nobler  in  the  mind  to  suffer 
The  stings  and  arrows  of  outrageous  fortune, 
Or  to  take  arms  against  a  sea  of  troubles. 
And  by  opposing  end  them. 

1959  Shaks.:  Hamlet,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

Truth. 

Truth  is  the  highest  thing  that  man  may  keep. 
Chaucer  :   The  Frankeleines  Tale, 

1960  Line  11789. 

O,  while  you  live,  tell  truth,  and  shame  the  devil. 

1961  Shaks.:  1  Henry  IV.,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

Truth  crushed  to  earth  shall  rise  again : 
The  eternal  years  of  God  are  hers. 

1962  William  Cullen  Bryant  :  The  Battle-Jield. 

Dare  to  be  true.     Nothing  can  need  a  lie; 

A  fault,  \yhich  needs  it  most,  grows  two  thereby. 

1963  Herbert  :   Temple,  Church  Porch,  St.  13. 

Truth  has  such  a  face  and  such  a  mien, 
As  to  be  lovVl,  needs  only  to  be  seen. 

1964  Drydex  :  Hind  and  Panther,  Ft.  i.,  Line  33. 

He  is  the  freeman  whom  the  truth  makes  free, 
And  all  are  slaves  beside. 

1965  Cowper:  Task,  Bk.  v.,  Line  133. 


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Truth  is  one; 
And,  in  all  lands  beneath  the  sun, 
Whoso  hath  eyes  to  see  may  see 
The  tokens  of  its  unity. 
196(3  Whittier:   Miriam. 

Truth  is  truth  howe'er  it  strike. 

1967  Robert  Browning:  La  Saisiaz,  Line  198. 

I  love  truth:  trutli  's  no  cleaner  thing  than  love. 
Mrs.  Browning:  Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  iii., 

1968  Line  735. 

Beauty  is  truth,  truth  beauty,  —  that  is  all 
Ye  know  on  earth,  and  all  ye  need  to  know. 

1969  Keats:  Ode  on  a  Grecian  Urn. 

Truth  forever  on  the  scaffold,  Wrong  forever  on  the 
throne. 

James  Russell  Lowell:  Present  Crisis, 

1970  St.  8. 

Tulips. 

Then  comes  the  tulip  race,  where  beauty  plays 

Her  idle  freaks  ;  from  family  diffused 

To  family,  as  flies  the  father-dust. 

The  varied  colors  run;  and  while  they  break 

On  the  charmed  eye,  the  exulting  florist  marks, 

With  secret  pride,  the  wonders  of  his  hand. 

1971  Thomson  :  Seasons,  Spring,  Line  539. 

Tune. 

Strange  that  a  harp  of  thousand  strings 
Should  keep  in  tune  so  long ! 

Watts  :  Hymns  and  Spiritual  Songs,  Bk.  ii., 

1972  Hymn  19. 


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Turf. 

Green  be  the  turf  above  thee, 
Friend  of  my  better  days  ! 

Fitz-Greene  Halleck  :  On  Joseph 

1973  Rodman  Drake. 

Turk. 

Should  such  a  man,  too  fond  to  rule  alone, 
Bear,  like  the  Turk,  no  brother  near  the  throne. 

1974  Pope:  Prologue  to  the  Satires,  Line  197. 

Twilight. 

Now  came  still  evening  on,  and  twilight  gray 
Had  in  her  sober  livery  all  things  clad. 

1975  Milton:  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  iv.,  Line  598. 

Peacefully 
The  quiet  stars  came  out,  one  after  one; 
The  holy  twilight  fell  upon  the  sea, 
The  summer  day  was  done. 

1976  Celia  Thaxter:  A  Su77uner  Day,  St.  15. 

Tyranny. 

'T  is  time  to  fear,  when  tyrants  seem  to  kiss. 

1977  Shaks.  :  Pericles,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 

'Twixt  kings  and   tyrants  there  's  this  difference 

known  — 
Kings  seek  their  subjects'  good,  tyrants  their  own. 

1978  Herrick:  Aph.  Kings  and  Tyrants. 

Think'st  thou  there  is  no  tyranny  but  that 
Of  blood  and  chains  ? 

1979  Byron  :  Sardanapalus,  Act  i.,  Sc.  2. 


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Uncertainty. 

Oh,  how  this  spring  of  love  resembleth 
The  uncertain  glory  of  an  April  day! 

1980  Shaks.:  Two  Gent,  of  V.,  Act  i.,  So.  3. 

Unity. 

Two  souls  with  but  a  single  thought, 
Two  hearts  that  beat  as  one. 

Maria  White  Lowell:  Ingomar  the 

1981  Barbarian,  Act  ii. 

Unkindness. 

This  was  the  most  unkindest  cut  of  all. 

1982  Shaks.:  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

Use. 

These  things  are  beyond  all  use, 
And  I  do  fear  them. 

1983  Shaks.  :  Jul.  Ccesar,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 


Vacuity. 

He  trudged  along,  unknowing  what  he  sought, 
And  whistled  as  he  went,  for  want  of  thought. 

1984  Dryden  :  Cyin.  and  Iph.,  Line  84. 

Valentine. 

Oft  have  I  heard  both  youths  and  virgins  say, 
Birds  choose  their  mates,  and  couple  too,  this  day ; 
But  by  their  flight  I  never  can  divine 
When  I  shall  couple  with  my  Valentine. 

1985  Herrick  :  Aph.  To  His  Valentine. 


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Valor. 

Fear  to  do  base  unworthy  things  is  valor ; 
It"  they  be  done  to  us,  to  suffer  them, 
Is  valor  too. 

1986  Ben  Jonson  :  New  Inn,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  3. 

Vanity. 

Light  vanity,  insatiate  cormorant 
Consuming  means,  soon  preys  upon  itself. 

1987  Shaks.  :  Richard  II.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 

What  dotage  will  not  Vanity  maintain  ? 
"What  web  too  weak  to  catch  a  mode'  n  brain  ? 

1988  CowPER  :  Expostulation,  Line  630. 

Vapor. 

A  wing  vapor  melting  in  a  tear. 

1989  Pope  :  Ody.-^sey,  Bk.  xix.,  Line  143. 

Variety. 

Variety  's  the  very  spice  of  life, 
That  gives  it  all  its  flavor. 

1990  CowPER  :  Task,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  606. 

Vault. 

Heaven's  ebon  vault 
Studded  with  stars  unutterably  bright. 

1991  Shelley  :  Queen  Mab. 

Vengeance. 

In  high  vengeance  there  is  noble  scorn. 

1992  George  Eliot  :  Spanish  Gypsy,  Bk.  iv. 

Venice. 

I  stood  in  Venice,  on  the  Bridge  of  Sighs, 
A  palace  and  a  prison  on  each  hand. 

1993  Byron  :  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iv.,  St.  1 


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In  Venice,  Tasso's  echoes  are  no  more, 
And  silent  rows  the  songless  gondolier. 

199i  Uykon:   Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iv.,  St.  3. 

Venus. 

Love  seldom  liaunts  the  breast  where  learning  lies, 
And  Venus  sets  ere  Mercury  can  rise. 

Pope:  Wife  of  Bath,  Her  Prologue, 

1995  Lnie  309. 

Verse. . 

Whoe'er  offends  at  some  unlucky  time 
Slides  into  verse,  and  hitches  in  a  rhyme. 

1996  Pope  :  Satire  i.,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  76. 

Verse  sweetens  toil,  however  rude  the  sound  ; 
She  feels  no  biting  pang  the  while  she  sings. 

1997  Richard  Giffoud  :   Contemplation. 

Vice. 

There  is  no  vice  so  simple,  but  assumes 
Some  mark  of  virtue  on  his  outward  parts. 

1998  Shaks.  :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

I  hate  svhen  vice  can  bolt  her  arguments, 
And  virtue  has  no  tongue  to  check  her  pride. 

1999  Milton  :  Comus,  Line  760. 

Vice  is  a  monster  of  so  frightful  mien, 
As  to  be  hated  needs  but  to  be  seen  ; 
Yet  seen  too  oft,  familiar  with  her  face, 
We  first  endure,  then  pity,  then  embrace. 

2000  Pope  :  Essa?/  on  Man,  Epis.  ii.,  Line  217. 


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Victory. 

Thus  far  our  fortune  keeps  an  upward  course, 
And  we  are  grac'd  with  wreatlis  of  victory. 

2001  Shaks.  :  3  Henry  VL,  Act  v.,  Sc.  3. 

"  But  what  good  came  of  it  at  last  ?  " 
Quoth  little  Peterkin. 
'•  Why,  that  I  cannot  tell,"  said  he  ; 
"But  't  was  a  famous  victory." 

2002  Egbert  Southey  :  Battle  of  Blenheim, 

Village. 

Sweet  Auburn  !  loveliest  village  of  the  plain. 

2003  Goldsmith  :  Des.  Village. 

Suburban  villas,  highway-side  retreats, 
That  dread  th'  encroachment  of  our  growing  streets, 
Tight  boxes  neatly  sash'd,  and  in  a  blaze 
"With  all  a  July  sun's  collected  rays, 
Delight  the  citizen,  who  gasping  there. 
Breathes  clouds  of  dust,  and  calls  it  country  air. 

2004  CowPER  :  Retirement,  Line  481. 

Villain. 

Which  is  the  villain  ?     Let  me  see  his  eyes  ; 
That  when  I  note  another  man  like  him 
I  may  avoid  him. 

2005  Shaks.  :  Much  Ado,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1 

Vine. 

Come,  thou  monarch  of  the  vine, 
Plumpy  Bacchus  with  pink  eyne  ! 

2006  Shaks.  :  Ant.  and  Cleo.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  7. 


308    DICTIONARY  OF  POKTICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Violet. 

A  violet  by  a  mossy  stone 

Half  hidden  from  the  eye; 
Fair  as  a  star,  when  only  one 

Is  shining  in  the  sky. 

WoRDSvvoKTH  :  She  Dicelt  among  the 

2007  Untrodden  Ways. 

Odors,  when  sweet  violets  sicken. 
Live  within  the  sense  they  quicken. 

2008  Shelley  :  Music,  When  Soft  Voices  Die. 

What  thought  is  folded  in  thy  leaves  ! 
AVhat  tender  thought,  what  speechless  pain  1 
I  hold  thy  faded  lips  to  mine, 
Thou  darling  of  the  April  rain  ! 

Thomas  Bailey  Aldricii  :   The  Faded 

2009  Violet. 

Virtue. 

Heaven  doth  with  us,  as  w^e  wdth  torches  do; 
Not  light  them  for  themselves :  for  if  our  virtues 
Did  not  go  forth  of  us,  't  w^ere  all  alike 
As  if  we  had  them  not. 

2010  Shaks.  :  M.for  M.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Men's  evil  manners  live  in  brass  ;  their  virtues 
We  write  in  water. 

2011  Shaks.  :  HeJiry  III.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  2. 

Assume  a  virtue  if  you  have  it  not. 

2012  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  4. 

Virtue  may  be  assail'd,  but  never  hurt; 
Surpris'd  by  unjust  force,  but  not  enthrall'd; 
Yea,  even  that  which  mischief  meant  most  harm, 
Shall  in  the  hap[>y  trial  prove  most  glory. 

2013  Milton  :  Comus,  Line  589. 


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Sometimes  virtue  starves  while  vice  is  fed, 
What  then  ?     Is  the  reward  of  virtue  bread? 

2014  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  iv.,  Line  149. 

Vision. 

And  in  clear  dream  and  solemn  vision 

Tell  her  of  things  that  no  gross  ear  can  hear. 

2015  Milton  :   Camus,  Line  453. 

Voice. 

Her  voice  was  ever  soft, 
Gentle,  and  low;  an  excellent  thing  in  woman. 

2016  Shaks.  :  King  Lear,  Act  v.,  Sc.  3. 

Vows. 

Unheedful  vows  may  heedfully  be  broken. 

2017  Shaks.  :   Two  Gent,  of  V.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  6. 

It  is  the  hour  when  lovers'  vow^s 

Seem  sweet  in  every  whisper'd  word. 

2018  Byron  :  Parisina,  St.  1. 


W. 
Wagers. 

Quoth  she,  I  've  heard  old  cunning  stagers 
Say  fools  for  arguments  use  wagers. 

Butler  :  Hudibras,  Pt.  ii.,  Canto  i., 

2019  Line  297. 

Walks. 

A  pillar'd  shade 
High  overarch'd,  and  echoing  walks  between. 

2020  Milton  ;  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ix.,  Line  1106. 


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Whene'er  I  take  my  walks  abroad, 
How  many  poor  I  see  ! 

2021  "Watts  :  Divine  Songs,  Song  iv. 

"War. 

O  war,  thou  son  of  hell, 
Whom  angry  heav'iis  do  make  their  minister, 
Throw  in  the  frozen  bosoms  of  our  part 
Hot  coals  of  vengeance  !  —  Let  no  soldier  fly  ; 
He  that  is  truly  delicate  to  war 
Hath  no  self-love  :  nor  he  that  loves  himself. 

2022  Shaks.  :  2  Henry  VI.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  2. 

Grim-visaged   war   hath   smoothed    his   wrinkled 
front. 

2023  Shaks.  :  Richard  III.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

War  's  a  game,  which,  were  their  subjects  wise. 
Kings  would  not  play  at. 

2024  CowPER  :  Task,  Bk.  v..  Line  186. 

War,  war  is  still  the  cry,  "  War  even  to  the  knife  !  " 

2025  Byron  :  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  i.,  St.  86. 

War  is  a  terrible  trade ;  but  in  the  cause  that  is 

righteous, 
Sweet  is  the  smell  of  powder. 

Longfellow:  Courtship  of  Miles  Standish, 

2026  Pt.  iv..  Line  185. 

"Warning. 

Men  that  stumble  at  the  threshold, 

Are  well  foretold  that  danger  lurks  within. 

2027  Shaks.  :  3  Henry  VI.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  7. 


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"Warrior. 

But  he  lay  like  a  warrior  taking  his  rest, 
With  his  martial  cloak  around  him. 

2028  Charles  Wolfe  :  Burial  of  Sir  John  Moore. 

"Washington. 

Washington 's  a  watchword  such  as  ne'er 
Shall  sink  while  there  's  an  echo  left  to  air. 

2029  Byt^o^:  Age  of  Bronze,  ^t.b. 

"Water. 

Smooth  runs  the  water  where  the  brook  is  deep. 

2030  Shaks.  :  2  Henrjj  VI.,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

Till  taught  by  pain, 
Men  really  know  not  what  good  n\  ater  's  worth  : 
If  you  had  been  in  Turkey  or  in  Spain, 
Or  with  a  famish'd  boat's  crew  had  your  berth, 
Or  in  the  deseit  heard  the  camel's  bell, 
You  'd  wish  yourself  where  truth  is  —  in  a  well. 

2031  Byron  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  ii.,  St.  84. 

"Wave. 

So  gently  shuts  the  eye  of  day; 
So  dies  a  wave  along  the  shore. 

2032  Mrs.  Barbauld  :  Death  of  the  Virtuous. 

A  life  on  the  ocean  wave  ! 

A  home  on  the  rolling  deep, 
Where  the  scattered  waters  rave, 

And  the  winds  their  revels  keep  ! 

2033  Epes  Sargent  :  Life  On  the  Ocean  Wave. 

Way. 

Like  one  that  had  been  led  astray 
Through  the  heav'n's  wide,  pathless  way. 

2034  Milton  :  //  Penseroso,  Line  65. 


"Weakness. 

If  weakness  may  excuse, 
What  Jiiurderer,  what  traitor,  parricide, 
Incestuous,  sacrilegious,  but  may  plead  it? 
All  wickedness  is  weakness;  that  plea,  therefore, 
With  God  or  man  will  gain  thee  no  remission.      * 

2035  Milton  :  Sam.  Agonistes,  Line  831. 

Wealth. 

If  thou  art  rich,  thou  art  poor ; 
For,  like  an  ass,  whose  back  with  ingots  bows, 
Thou  bearest  thy  heavy  riches  but  a  journey, 
And  death  unloads  thee. 

2036  Shaks.  :  M.  for  M.,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  1. 

To  purchase  heaven,  has  gold  the  power? 
Can  gold  remove  the  mortal  hour? 
In  lite,  can  love  be  bought  with  gold? 
Are  friendship's  pleasures  to  be  sold? 

2037  Dr.  Johnson  :  To  a  Friend. 

Weeds. 

Have  hung 
My  dank  and  dropping  weeds 
To  the  stern  god  of  sea. 

2038  Milton  :   7V.  of  Horace,  Bk.  i.,  Ode  5. 

Welcome. 

Sir,  you  are  very  welcome  to  our  house. 
It  must  appear  in  other  ways  than  words. 
Therefore,  I  scant  this  breathing  courtesy. 

2039  Shaks.  :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

A  hundred  thousand  welcomes  :  I  could  weep. 
And  I  could  laugh;  I  am  light  and  heavy:  Wel- 
come. 

2040  Shaks.  :  Cofiolanus,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  1. 


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Wheel. 

I  wandered  by  the  brookside, 

I  wandered  by  the  mill; 
I  could  not  hear  the  brook  flow, 

The  noisy  wheel  was  still. 

Richard  Moncktox  Milnes  : 
2041  The  Brookside. 

"Wickedness. 

There  is  a  method  in  man's  wickedness,  — 
It  grows  up  by  degrees. 

Beau:niont  AND  Fletcher  :  A  King 
2012  and  No  King,  Act  v.,  Sc.  4. 

Widows. 

May  widows  wed  as  often  as  they  can, 
And  ever  for  the  better  change  their  man ;    - 
And  some  devouring  plague  pursue  their  lives, 
"Who  will  not  well  be  govern'd  by  their  wives. 

2043  Drydex:    Wife  of  Bath,  Une  b^^. 

Wife. 

She  is  mine  own ; 
And  I  as  rich  in  having  such  a  jewel, 
■     As  twenty  seas,  if  all  their  sands  were  pearl, 
The  water  nectar,  and  the  rocks  pure  gold. 

2044  Shaks.  :  Tico  Gent,  of  V.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  4. 

We  '11  leave  a  proof,  by  that  which  we  will  do, 
"Wives  may  be  merry,  and  yet  honest  too. 

2045  Shaks.  :  Mer.  W.  of  W.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.2. 

The  wife,  where  danger  or  dishonor  lurks. 
Safest  and  seemliest  by  her  husband  stays, 
"Who  guards  her,  or  with  her  the  worst  endures. 

2046  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ix.,  Line  267 


314    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

She  is  a  boniiie  wee  thing, 
This  sweet  wee  wife  o'  mine. 

2047  Burns  :  My  Wife  's  a  Winsome  Wee  Thiufj. 

The  world  well  tried  —  the  sweetest  thing  in  life 
Is  the  unclouded  welcome  of  a  wife. 

2048  N.  P.  Willis  :  Lady  Jane,  Canto  ii.,  St.  11. 

"Wilderness. 

Oh  for  a  lodge  in  some  vast  wilderness, 
Some  boundless  contiguity  of  shade. 

2049  Cow  PER  :   Task,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  1. 

Will. 

A  weapon  that  comes  down  as  still 

As  snowflakes  fall  upon  the  sod ; 
But  executes  a  freeman's  will, 

As  lightning  does  the  will  of  God. 

2050  John  PiERPONT  :  ^  Wordfrom  a  Petitioner. 

Willow. 

A  poore  soule  sat  sighing  under  a  sycamore  tree; 

Oh,  willow,  willow,  willow  ! 
With  his  hand  on  his  bosom,  his  head  on  his  knee, 
Oh,  willow,  willow,  willow  ! 

2051  Thomas  Percy  :  Willow,  Willow,  Willow. 

Wind. 

What  wind  blew  you  hither,  Pistol? 

Not  the  ill  wind  which  blows  none  to  good. 

2052  Shaks.  :  2  Henry  IV.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  3. 

The  wind  is  rising ;  it  seizes  and  shakes 
The  doors  and  window-blinds  and  makes 
Mysterious  moanings  in  the  halls; 


DICTIOXARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATION'S.    315 

The  convent-chimneys  seem  almost 
The  trumpets  of  some  heavenly  host, 
Setting  its  watch  upon  our  walls ! 

2053  Longfellow:   Christus,  Abbot  Joachim. 

A  gentle  wind  of  western  birth, 
From  some  far  summer  sea, 
Wakes  daisies  m  the  wintry  earth. 

George  Macdonald  :   Songs  of  the 

2054  Spring  Days. 

A  melancholy  sound  is  in  the  air, 

A  deep  sigh  in  the  distance,  a  shrill  wail 

Around  my  dwelling.     'T  is  the  Wind  of  night. 

2055  William  Cullen  Bryant;  A  Rain  Dream. 

Windows. 

llicli  windows  that  exclude  the  light. 
And  passages  that  lead  to  nothing. 

2056  Gray  ;  A  Long  Story. 

Wine. 

Wine  makes  Love  forget  its  care, 
And  mirth  exalts  a  feast. 

Parnell:  Anacreontic,  '■Gay  Bacchus,  etc.," 

2057  St.  2. 

And  wine  can  of  their  wits  the  wise  beguile. 
Make  the  sage  frolic,  and  the  serious  smile. 

2058  Pope  :  Odyssey,  Bk.  xiv..  Line  520. 

Wing. 

This  quiet  sail  is  as  a  noiseless  wing 
To  waft  me  from  distraction. 

2059  Byron  :  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iii.,  St.  85. 


316    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS, 

How  at  heaven's  gates  she  claps  her  wings, 
The  morne  not  waking  til  she  sings. 

John  Lyly:   Cupid  and  Cam paspe, 

2060  Actv.,  Sc.  1. 

"Winter. 

Now  is  the  winter  of  our  discontent 

Made  glorious  summer  by  this  sun  of  York. 

2061  Shaks.  :  Richard  III.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

See,  Winter  comes  to  rule  the  varied  year, 
Sullen  and  sad,  with  all  his  rising  train. 
Vapors,  and  clouds,  and  storms. 

2062  Thomson  :  Seaso7is,  Winter,  Line  1. 

But  Winter  has  yet  brighter  scenes  —  he  boasts 
Splendors  beyond  what  gorgeous  Summer  knows; 
Or  Autumn  with  his  many  fruits,  and  woods 
All  flushed  with  many  hues. 

William  Cullen  Bryant:^  Winter 

2063  Piece. 

No  vernal  blooms  their  torpid  rocks  array, 
But  winter  lingering  chills  the  lap  of  May. 

2064  Goldsmith  :  Traveller,  Line  171. 

In  rigorous  hours,  when  down  the  iron  lane 
The  redbreast  looks  in  vain 

For  hips  and  haws, 
Lo,  shining  flowers  upon  my  window-pane 

The  silver  pencil  of  the  winter  draws. 

2065  Robert  Louis  Stevenson:   Winter. 

Wisdom. 

Wisdom  and  fortune  combating  together. 
If  that  the  former  dare  but  what  it  can, 
No  chance  may  shake  it. 

2066  Shaks.:  Ant.  and  Cleo.,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  IL 


DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.   317 

What  is  it  to  be  wise? 
'T  is  but  to  know  how  little  can  be  known ; 
To  see  all  others'  faults,  and  feel  your  own. 

2067  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Epis,  iv.,  Line  260. 

The  stream  from  Wisdom's  well, 
Which  God  supplies,  is  inexhaustible. 

2068  Bayard  Taylor:  Wisdom  of  All. 

And  Wisdom's  self 
Oft  seeks  to  sweet  retired  solitude. 

2069  Milton  :  Connis,  Line  373. 

"Wishes. 

Thy  wish  was  father,  Harry,  to  that  thought. 

2070  Shaks.  :  2  Henry  I V.,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  4. 

Our  wdshes  lengthen,  as  our  sun  declines. 

Young  :  Night  Thoughts,  Night  v., 

2071  Line  662. 

Wit  —  "Wits. 

I  hold  a  mouses  wit  not  worth  a  leke, 
That  hath  but  one  hole  for  to  sterten  to. 

Chaucer  :  Cayiterhunj  Tales,  The  Wif  of 

2072  Bathes  Prologue,  Line  615%. 

Wit  's  an  unruly  engine,  wildly  striking 
Sometimes  a  friend,  sometimes  the  engineer. 

2073  Herbert:   Temple,  Church  Porch,  St.  4L 

Great  wits  are  sure  to  madness  near  allied, 
And  thin  partitions  do  their  bounds  divide. 

Dryden  :  Absalom  and  Achitopheh  Pt.  i., 

2074  Line  163. 


318    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Men  famed  for  wit,  of  dangerous  talents  vain, 
Treat  those  of  common  parts  with  proud  disdain. 

2075  Ckabbe  :  Patron,  Line  229. 

Though  I  am  young,  I  scorn  to  flit 
On  the  wings  of  borrowed  wit. 

George  Wither:  The.  ShephenVs 

2076  Hunlimj. 

"Witches. 

Midnight  hags, 
By  force  of  potent  spells,  of  bloody  characters. 
And  conjurations,  horrible  to  hear, 
Call  fiends  and  spectres  from  the  yawning  deep. 
And  set  the  ministers  of  hell  at  work. 

2077  Rowe:  Jane  Shore,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

Woe. 

But  I  have  that  within  which  passeth  show; 
These  but  the  trappings  and  the  suits  of  woe. 

2078  SiiAKS. :  Hamkt,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Woes  cluster ;  rare  ai-e  solitary  woes ; 

They  love  a  train,  they  tread  each  other's  heel. 

2079  Young:  Night  Thoughts,  Night  iii.,  Line  03. 

Chords  that  vibrate  sweetest  pleasure 
Thrill  the  deepest  notes  of  woe. 

2080  Burns:  Sweet  Sensibility. 

Wolf. 

He 's  the  symbol  of  hunger  the  whole  earth  through, 
His  spectre  sits  at  the  door  or  cave, 
And  the  homeless  hear  with  a  thrill  of  fear 
The  sound  of  his  wind-swept  voice  on  the  air. 

Hamlix  (Jarland:   The  Gaunt  Gray 

2081  Wolf. 


DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.    319 

Woman. 

Women  are  as  roses  ;  whose  fair  flower, 
Being  once  display'd,  doth  fall  that  very  hour. 

2082  IShaks.  :   Tu\  Night,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  4. 

Honor  to  women  !  to  them  it  is  given 

To  garden  the  earth  with  the  roses  of  Heaven. 

2083  Schiller  :  Honor  to  Women. 

Nothing  lovelier  can  be  found 
In  woman,  than  to  study  household  good, 
And  good  works  in  her  husband  to  promote. 

2084  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ix..  Line  232. 

O  woman  !  lovely  woman  !     Nature  made  thee 
To  temper  man ;  we  had  been  brutes  without  you. 

2085  Otway:    Venice  Preserved,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

"Where  is  the  man  who  has  the  power  and  skill 
To  stem  the  torrent  of  a  woman's  will? 
For  if  she  will,  she  will,  you  may  depend  on  't; 
And  if  she  won't,  she  won't ;  so  there  's  an  end  on  't. 
Copied  from  the  pillar  erected  on  the  mount  in  the 
Dane  John  Field,  Canterbury.       {^Examiner: 

2086  May  31,  1829.] 

And  yet  believe  me,  good  as  well  as  ill, 
AVoman  's  at  best  a  contradiction  still. 
Heaven,  when  it  strives  to  polish  all  it  can 
Its  last  best  work,  but  forms  a  softer  man. 

2087  Pope  :  Moral  Essays,  Epis.  ii.,  Line  269. 

Earth's  noblest  thing,  a  woman  perfected. 

2088  James  Russell  Lowell:  Irene. 


320    DICTIONARY  OF  i'OETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

And  whether  coldness,  pride,  or  virtue,  dignify 
A  woman ;  so  she  's  good,  what  does  it  signify? 

2089  Byron  :  Don  Juan,  Canto  xiv.,  St.  57. 

Oh,  woman  !  in  our  hours  of  ease, 
Uncertain,  coy,  and  hard  to  please, 
And  variable  as  the  shade 
By  the  light  quivering  aspen  made; 
AVhen  pain  and  anguish  wring  the  brow, 
A  ministering  angel  thou  ! 

2090  Scott  :  Marmion,  Canto  vi.,  St.  30. 

The  woman  that  deliberates  is  lost. 

2091  Addisox:  Cato,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1- 

A  woman  mixed  of  such  fine  elements 
That  were  all  virtue  and  religion  dead 
She  'd  make  them  newly,  being  what  she  was. 

2092  Gkouge  Eliot  :   llie  Spanish  Gypsy,  Bk.  i\. 

Till  we  are  built  like  angels,  with  hammer,  and 

chisel,  and  pen. 
We  will  work  for  ourselves  and  a  woman,  for  ever 

and  ever.  Amen. 

2093  RuDYARD  Kipling:  An  Imperial  Rescript. 

Wonder. 

A  schoolboy's  tale,  the  wonder  of  an  hour  ! 

2094  Byron  :  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  ii.,  St.  2. 

"Woodland. 

Yon  woodland,  like  a  human  mind, 
Has  many  a  phase  of  dark  and  light; 

Now  dim  with  shadows  wandering  blind, 
Now  radiant  with  fair  shapes  of  light. 

2095  Paul  Hamilton  Uayne:   The  Woodland. 


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"Woodman. 

Woodman,  spare  that  tree ! 

Touch  not  a  single  bough  ! 
In  youth  it  sheltered  me, 

And  I  '11  protect  it  now. 

George  P.  ^Iorris  :   Woodman,  Spare 

2096  that  Tree. 

"Woods. 

Fresh  gales  and  gentle  airs 
Whisper'd  it  to  the  woods,  and  from  their  wings 
Flung  rose,  flung  odors  from  the  spicy  shrub. 

2097  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  viii.,  Line  508. 

"Words. 

'T  is  well  said  again. 
And  't  is  a  kind  of  good  deed  to  say  well : 
And  yet  words  are  no  deeds. 

2098  Shaks.  :  Hetiry  VIIL,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

My  words  fly  up,  my  thoughts  remain  below : 
Words  without  thoughts,  never  to  heaven  go. 

2099  Shaks.  :  Hamlet,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  3. 

Apt  w^ords  have  power  to  'suage 
The  tumors  of  a  troubled  mind ; 
And  are  as  balm  to  fester'd  wounds. 

2100  Milton  :  Samson  Agonistes,  Line  184. 

Our  words  have  wings,  but  fly  not  where  we  would. 

2101  George  Eliot  :  Spanish  Gypsy,  Bk.  iii. 

Words,  however,  are  things. 

Owen  Meredith  :  Lucile,  Pt.  i., 

2102  Canto  ii.,  St.  6. 


322    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

"Wordsworth. 

Time  may  restore  us  in  his  course 
Goethe's  sage  mind  and  Byron's  force ; 
But  where  will  Europe's  latter  hour 
Again  find  Wordsworth's  healing  power? 

2103  Matthew  Arnold  :  Memorial  Verses. 

Work. 

Free  men  freely  work  : 
Whoever  fears  God,  fears  to  sit  at  ease. 

Mrs.  Browning  :  Aurora  Leigh,  Bk.  viii., 

2104  Line  752. 

Men  must  work,  and  women  must  weep. 

2105  Charles  Kingsley  :   21ie  Three  Fishers. 

"World. 

Why,  then,  the  world  's  mine  oyster, 
Which  1  with  sword  will  open. 

2106  Shaks.  :  Mer.  W.  of  W.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

You  have  too  much  respect  upon  the  world : 
They  lose  it  that  do  buy  it  with  much  care. 

2107  Shaks.  :  M.  of  Venice,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Fast  by  hanging  in  a  golden  chain, 
This  pendent  world,  in  bigness  as  a  star. 

2108  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  ii.,  Line  1051. 

This  world  is  all  a  fleeting  show, 
For  man's  illusion  given  ; 
The  smiles  of  joy,  the  tears  of  woe, 
Deceitful  shine,  deceitful  flow  — 
There  's  nothing  true  but  Heaven. 

2109  Moore  :   This  World  is  all  a  Fleeting  Shoiv. 


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I  have  not  loved  the  world,  nor  the  world  me. 

2110  Byron:  Ch.  Harold,  Canto  iiL,  St.  113. 

■Worm. 

The  smallest  worm  will  turn,  being  trodden  on. 

2111  Shaks.  :  3  Henry  VI.,  Act  ii.,  Sc.  2. 

Worship. 

There  may  be  worship  without  words. 

2112  Longfellow  :  Mt/  Cathedral. 

"Worth. 

Worth  makes  the  man,  and  want  of  it  the  fellow  ; 
The  rest  is  all  but  leather  or  prunella. 

2113  Pope  :  Essay  on  Man,  Epis.  iv.,  Line  203. 

Wounds. 

Give  me  another  horse :  bind  up  my  wounds. 

2114  Shaks.  :  Richard  IIL,  Act  v.,  Sc.  3. 

Willing  to  wound,  and  yet  afraid  to  strike. 

2115  Pope  :  Prol.  to  the  Satires,  Line  201. 

Wrath. 

Come  not  within  the  measure  of  my  wrath. 

2116  Shaks.  :  Tivo  Gent,  o/v.,  Act  v.,  Sc.  4. 

Achilles'  wrath,  to  Greece  the  direful  spring 
Of  woes  unnumber'd,  heavenly  goddess,  sing ! 

2117  Pope  :  '^ Iliad,  Bk.  i.,  Line  1. 

Wreaths. 

Now  are  our  brows  bound  with  victorious  wreaths, 
Our  bruised  arms  hung  up  for  monuments. 

2118  Shaks.  :  Richard  III.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 


324    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Wrecks. 

Meth ought  I  saw  a  thousand  fearful  wrecks, 
Ten  thousand  men  that  fishes  gnawed  upon. 

2119  Shaks.  :  Richard  III.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  4. 

Wretch. 

A  needy,  hollow-eyed,  sharp-looking  wretch, 
A  living  dead  man. 

2120  Shaks.  :  Com.  of  Errors,  Act  v.,  Sc.  1. 

"Writing. 

You  write  with  ease  to  show  your  breeding, 
But  easy  writing  's  curs'd  hard  reading. 

2121  Sheridan  :  Clio's  Prot. 

Of  all  those  arts  in  which  the  wise  excel, 
Nature's  chief  masterpiece  is  w^riting  well. 

Sheffield,  Duke  of  Buckixcjhamshihe: 

2122  Essay  on  Poetry. 

Wrong. 

Behold  on  wrong 
Swift  vengeance  waits;  and  art  subdues  the  strong ! 

2123  Pope  :  Odyssey ^  Bk.  viii.,  Line  307. 

Wrongs  unredressed,  or  insults  unavenged. 

2124  Wordsworth  :  Excursion,  Bk.  iii. 


X. 

Xerxes. 

Xerxes  did  die, 
And  so  must  I. 
2125  From  the  New  England  Primer. 


DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS.    325 

Y. 

Years. 

Jumping  o'er  times, 
Turning  the  accomplishment  of  many  years 
Into  an  hourglass. 

2126  Shaks.  :  Henry  V.,  Act  i.,  Chorus. 

Years  following  years,  steal  something  every  day ; 
At  last  they  steal  us  from  ourselves  away. 

2127  Pope  :  Satire  vi.,  Line  72. 

I  sigh  not  over  vanished  years. 
Hut  watch  the  years  that  hasten  by. 
Look,  how  they  come,  —  a  mingled  crowd 
Of  bright  and  dark,  but  rapid  days. 

2128  William  Cullex  Bryaxt  :  Lapse  of  Time. 

None  would  live  past  years  again, 
Yet  all  hope  pleasure  in  what  yet  remain. 

2129  Dryden:  Aurengzehe,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  1. 

Yesterday. 

Oh,  call  back  yesterday,  bid  time  return  ! 

2130  '  Shaks.  :  Richard  II.,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

Yew-Tree. 

Old  yew,  which  graspest  at  the  stones 
That  name  the  underlying  dead. 
Thy  fibres  net  the  dreamless  head, 

Thy  roots  are  wrapt  about  the  bones. 

2131  Tennyson:  In  Menwriain,  Pt.ii.,  St.  1. 

Youth. 

For  youth  no  less  becomes 
The  light  and  careless  livery  that  it  wears, 


326    DICTIONARY  OF  POETICAL  QUOTATIONS. 

Than  settled  age  bis  sables,  and  his  weeds, 
Importing  health  and  graveness. 

2132  SiiAKS. :  Hamlet,  Act  iv.,  Sc.  7. 

Home-keeping  youth  have  ever  homely  wits. 

2133  SiiAKS. :  Ttvo  Gent,  of  V.,  Act  i.,  Sc.  1. 

Youth!  youth!  how  buoyant  are  thy  hopes!  they 

turn, 
Like  marigolds,  toward  the  sunny  side. 

2134  Jean  Ingelow  :  Four  Bridges,  St.  56. 

How  beautiful  is  youth  !  how  bright  it  gleams 
With  its  illusions,  aspirations,  dreams  1 

2135  Longfellow  :  Morituri  Salutamm. 

In  gallant  trim  the  gilded  vessel  goes. 

Youth  on  the  prow,  and  Pleasure  at  the  helm. 

2136  Gray  :  Bard,  Pt.  ii.,  St.  2,  Line  9. 


Z. 

Zeal. 

Had  I  but  served  my  God  with  half  the  zeal 
I  served  my  king,  he  would  not  in  mine  age 
Have  left  me  naked  to  mine  enemies. 

2137  Shaks.:  Henry  VIIL,  Act  iii.,  Sc.  2. 

His  zeal 
None  seconded,  as  out  of  season  judg'd, 
Or  singular  and  rash. 

2138  Milton  :  Par.  Lost,  Bk.  v.,  Line  849 


INDEX  TO  AUTHORS. 


The  references  which  follow  the  Chronological  Data  are  the  numbers 

of  the  Quotations  in  consecutive  order  from  the  respective  Authors 

under  which  they  are  placed. 


Addison^  Joseph,  b.  Milston. 
Wiltshire,  Eng.,  1672;  d.  Lon- 
don, Eng.,  1719.  —50,  393,  55<j. 
6-29,  70U,  713,  749,  766,  925,  969, 
1U78,  15S;3,  ISU,  2191. 

Akenside,  Mark.  b.  New- 
castle-upon-Tyne, 1721 ;  d. 
London,  Eng.,  1770.  —  1S65, 
1933. 

Aldrich,  Jaxnes.  b.  New 
York,  ISlM:   d.   1S56.  —  USl. 

Aldrich,  Thomas  Bailey. 
b.  Purtsmouih,  N.H.,  1S36 ; 
d.  1907.  —23S,  407,  771,  2009. 

Allen,  Elizabeth  Akerg.  b. 
j«trong.  Me.,  Is32 ;  .  .  .  .— 
313. 

Armstrong,  John.  b.  Liddes- 
dale,  Eng.,  1709;  d.  London, 
Eng..  1779.-1^64. 

Arnold,  Sir  Edwin,  b.  Lon- 
don, 1S32  ;  d.  1904.    .   .   .—493. 

Arnold,  Matthew,  b.  Lale- 
ham.  Middlesex.  Eng.,  1S22; 
d.  Ena-.,  is-,^.  —  15:37.  2103. 

Aytoun,  William  Edmond- 
stoune.  b.  Fifeshire,  1S13  ;  d. 
1S65.  —  1735. 

Bailey,   Philip    James,      b. 

Nottinsrhain,  Eng.,  lS16;d.l902. 
-43,  79.  322.  5-31,  614,  746,  967, 
1349.  1770,  1S33. 
Baillie,  Joanna,  b.  Lanark- 
shire, Scot..  1762;  d.  Hamp- 
Btead,  Eng..  1S51.  — 19S. 


Barbauld,  AnnaLaetitia.   b. 

Leicestershire,   Eng.,    1743  ;  d. 

l>2r).  —  7S2,  1717,  2032. 
Barringrton,  George,   b.  May- 

nooth,   Ireland.   1755:    d.  New 

South  Wales  at  a  great  age.  — 

413. 
Barry,   Michael    J.       Circa 

1S15.  —  1340. 
Baxter,  Richardc   b.  Rowdon, 

Shropshire,  Eng.,  1615  ;  d.  1691. 

—  137.5. 

Bayly,  Thomas  Haynes.  b. 
near  Bath,  Eng.,  1797  ;  d.  1S39. 

—  21S.  133.5. 

Beattie,  James,  b.  Laurence- 
kirk. Scot.,  1735;  d.  Aberdeen, 
Scot.,  1S03.  -  60,  4S5,  670.  S37. 

Beaumont  and  Fletcher. 
Beaumont.  Francis,  b.  Leices- 
tershire, Eng.,  15S6;  d.  1615. 
Fletcher.  John.  b.  Rve,  Eng., 
1576;  d.  London,  Eng.,  1625. 
19,  22,  204,  40S,  559.  598.  1154, 
1231.  156S,  1S61,  1917,  2042. 

Benserade,  Isaac  de.  b.  in 
Upper  Normandv,  1612 ;  d. 
1691.— 164. 

Blair,  Robert,  b.  Edinburgh, 
Scot.,  1699  ;  d.  Athelstaneford, 
Scot.,  1747.  —  S5,  S19.  S36.  1651. 

Booth,  Barton,  b.  Lancashire, 
Eng.,  16!5l  ;  d.  1733.  —  13.>l. 

Boyesen,  Hjalmar  Hjorth. 
b.  Fredericksvern,  Norwav 
154S;  d.  1895. -102S.  1162. 


327 


328 


INDEX    TO    AUTHORS. 


lirainston,  James,  b.  Eng- 
land ;  (1.  1744.  -  sTa. 

Brown,  John.  b.  Kngland, 
1715;  d.  17(J(J.  —  49,  481. 

Brown,  Tom.  b.  Shropshire, 
Kiiij:.,  1003  ;  d.  17<»4.  —502. 

Browning,  £Iizabeth  Bar- 
rett, b.  London,  Ew^.,  LSU'J ; 
d.  Florence,  Italy,  1801.  — 100, 
196,  650,  77S,  848,  bS7,  1000, 
1039,  1073,  1296.  1373,  1059, 
1709,  1733,  190S,  2104. 

Browning,  Robert,  b.  Cani- 
berwell,  Eng.,  1612;  d.  1869. — 
65,  129,  251,  474,  519,  681,  747, 
865,  993,  994,  996,  1086,  1123, 
1188,  1222,  1228,  1312,  1344, 
1351,  1450,  1607,  1710,  1822, 
1825,  1901,  1950,  1957,  1907. 

Bryant,  William  Cullen. 
b.  Cmninintrton,  Mass.,  1794; 
d.  New  York,  1878.  —234,  240, 
317,  627,  697,  725,  758,  851,  906, 
1155,  1246,  1277,  1321,  1445, 
1604,  1603.  1793,  1819,  1951. 
1902,  2055,  2003,  2128. 

Bulwer,  Edward  George 
Earle  Lytton  [Baron  Lyt- 
ton].  b.  London,  Eng.,  1803  ;  d. 
Torquay,  France,  1873.  —1323. 

Bunn,  Alfred,  b.  England ; 
d.  1860. —88S. 

Bunyan,  John.  b.  Elstow, 
Eng.,  1628 ;  d.  London,  Eng., 
1688. -6(>4,  1383. 

Burns,  Robert,  b.  Ayr,  Scot., 
1759;  d.  Dumfries,  Scot.,  1790. 
—  20,  208,  222,  242,  552,  588,  592, 
004,  694,  773,  783,  954,  964,  986, 
1080,  1095,  1106,  1109,  1129, 
1147,  1193,  1345,  14-J5.  15SS, 
1599,  1600,  1642,  1704,  2047, 
20S0. 

Butler,  Samuel,  b.  Worces- 
tershire, Eng.,  1612 ;  d.  Lon- 
don. Eng.,  1080.  -  39,  153,  236, 
303,  305,  405,  423,  549,  500,  574, 
615,  799,  972,  992,  1014,  1110, 
1209,  1271,  1284,  1334,  1347, 
1394,  1405,  1449,  1496,  1504, 
1510,  1557,  1585,  1682,  1705, 
1811,  1852,  1858,  1886,  1932, 
2019. 


Byron,  George  Gordon, 
Lord.  b.  London,  Eng., 
1768;  d.  Missoionghi,  Greece, 
1824.-31,  59,  62,  116,  133,  148, 
109,  176,  209,  315,  351,  352,  354, 
308,  3SS,  419,  451,  460,  469,  470, 
480,  5oO,  511,  5:i4,  537,  553,  582, 
594,  012,  019,  051,  077,  734,  748, 
751,  787,  813,  841,  842,  84-3,  850, 
878,  879,  898,  908,  910,  995,  1059, 
1075,  1087,  1115,  1131,  lias, 
1166,  1221,  1229,  1232,  1251, 
1275,  1303,  1337,  1391,  1407, 
1419,  1442,  1498,  1506,  1522, 
1529,  1538,  1556,  1563,  1573, 
1575,  1580,  1596,  1601,  1620, 
1621,  1625,  1668,  1672,  1679, 
1686,  1688,  1716,  1718,  1731, 
1751,  1792,  1794,  1818,  1847, 
1851,  1802,  1884,  1897,  1910, 
1920,  1935,  1979,  1993,  1994, 
2018,  2025,  2029,  2031,  2059, 
2089,    2094,    2110. 

Campbell,  Thomas,  b.  Glas- 
gow, Scot.,  1777;  d.  Boulogne, 
France,  1844.-142,  149,359, 
570,  715.  723,  933,  1243,  1390, 
1541,  1584,  1593,  1694,  1703, 
1741.  1877. 

Canning,  George,  b.  London, 
Eng.,  1770;  d.  Cheswick,  Eng., 
1827.  -  729. 

Carey,  Henry,  b.  1663;  d. 
Coldbath-Fields,  Eng.,  1743.  - 
349. 

Carlyle,  Thomas,  b.  Eccle- 
feclian,  Scot.,  1795;  d.  Chelsea, 
near  London,  Eng.,  1881.  — 
1090,  1150. 

Cary,  Alice,  b.  near  Cincin- 
nati, O.,  1820;  d.  New  York 
City,  1871.— 536,  1262. 

Cary,  Phoebe,  b.  near  Cincin- 
nati, ().,  1824;  d.  New  York 
City,  1871.— 646. 

Chapman,        George.  b. 

Hitchin,  Eng.,  1557;  d.  Lon- 
don,  Eng.,  1034. —658. 

Chatterton,  Thomas.  b. 
Bristol,  Eng.,  1752;  d.  Lon- 
don, Eng.,  177(1.  -  1136. 

Chaucer,  Geoffrej'.    b.  Lon- 


INDEX    TO    AUTHORS. 


329 


don,  Eng.,  132S  ;  d.  UOo.  —  40,  | 
104,  1&47,  185:3,  19t)U,  -jnT-i. 
Chorley,  Henry  Fothergill. 

b.  1MI>;  d.  1?T-J.  — 1•J•5^. 
Churchill,       Charles.  b. 

Westminster,    Eng.,    1731 ;    d. 
Boulogne,    France,    1764.  —  98, 
liM»,  185,  530,  098,  703,  874,  978, 
IT  13,  1749. 
Cleuiiner,    Mary.      b.    Utica, 

N.Y..  1S39:  d.  l>-4.  —  (no. 
Coleridge,  Samuel  Taylor. 
b.  Devonshire,  Eng.,   17V.i;  d. 
London,  Eng.,  18:34. —71,  143, 
282,  395,  465,  484,  599,  708,  728, 
979,  11:38,  1227.  1:3:36,  1:372,  1379, 
1431,  1473,  1507.  1561.  1673. 
Collins,  William,    b.  Chiches- 
ter, Eng..  1720;  d.  Chichester, 
Eng.,   1756.  —  227,   928,    1035, 
12:39. 
Colman, George  [theyounger]. 
b.  IT  VJ  ;  d.  London,  Eng.,  1&36. 
-9T1. 
Congreve,  William,  b.  Bard 
sev.   Ent:..     ItJTn;    d.    London,  ! 
Eng.,    IT-jy.  — ISO,     775,    1237,1 
Imm,  1926.  ; 

Cook,  Eliza,  b.  London,  Eng.,  j 
I^IT  ;  d.  l-?-li.  —  1747.  I 

••  Cornwall,      Barry."       See  ' 
PRoriER,  Bryan-  Waller.  | 

Cowley,    Abraham,  b.    Lon-  j 
don,   Eng.,  1618;   d.   Chertsev, 
Eng.,  1667. —4T9,  786. 
Cowper,   William,    b.   Great  \ 
Berkhainstead,    Hertfordshire,  ! 
Eng.,   1731;  d.  180(t. -30,  102, 
146.  175,  365,  403,  412,  586,  561, 
650,  7:39,  762,  868,  889.  914,  960, 
1036,  1079.  1201, 1393, 1401, 1404, 
1437,  1466, 1475, 1571,  16:37, 1723, 
1752.  1759. 1799, 1916, 1931,  1937, 
19t;5.  1958. 1990,  2004,  2024, 2049. 
Crabbe,  George,    b.   Aldbor- 
ough,    Eng.,    1754 ;    d.    Trow- 
bridge,   Eng.,    18:32.-44,    205, 
:33i»."379.  428,  13>2.   1412,  1515, 
15T6.  1617,  1702.  1880.  2075. 
Cranch,       Christopher 
Pearse.     b.  Alexandria,   Va., 
l5l3;  d.  1892.  —1903. 
Crashaw,  Richard,    b.  Lon 


don,  Eng.,  about  1616 ;  d.  Italy, 
about  165*3.  —541,  814. 
Croly,     George,      b.    Dublin, 
Ireland,  17sU  ;  d.  I860.—  liOi. 

Dana,   Richard    Henry,    b. 

Cambridge,     Mass.,     17>'7 ;    d. 
Boston,  Mass.,  1^7^. —  1773. 

Dante,  Alighieri.  b.  Florence, 
Italv,  1265  ;  d.  liaveuna,  1321. — 
9:30." 

Darwin,  Erasmus,  b.  New- 
ark, Eng.,  1T31;  d.  Derbv,  Eng., 
1802.— '1108. 

Defoe,  DanieL  b.  London, 
Eng.,  1061  ;  d.  London,  Eng., 
1731.-384,  1:300. 

De  L'Isle,  Joseph  Rouget. 
b.  Lons-le-.8aunice,  France, 
1700;  d.  18:36.-807. 

Dickens,  Charles,  b.  Land- 
{)ort,  near  Portsmouth,  Eng., 
1812  ;  d.  Gadshill,  near  Roches- 
ter. Eng..  1870.  —997. 

Donne,  John,  D.D.  b.  Lon- 
don, Eng.,  1573;  d.  London, 
Eng.,  1631.  —1821. 

Dorr,  Julia  Caroline  Rip- 
ley, b.  Charleston.  fe.C, 
1825 ;....  —  1493,  1830. 

Drake,  Joseph  Rodman,  b. 
New  York  Citv,  1T9.3;  d.  New 
York  City.  1^2n.  —  714,  761. 

Dryden,  John.  b.  Aid  win- 
kle, Eng..  1631  ;  d.  London, 
Entr.,  1701.  —  158,  226,  252,  337, 
344,  504,  680,  776.  790,  858,  860, 
871,  884,  1179,  1234,  1299,  1:346, 
i;358, 1362, 1365, 1425, 1460, 1519. 
1577, 1610,  1764, 1772.  18:36,  1909, 
1921,  1948,  1964, 1984,  2043,  2074, 
2129. 

Dwight,  Timothy,  b.  North- 
am;itori.  Mass..  lT52;d.  New 
Haven,  Conn..  181T. — 357. 

Dyer,  Sir  Edward,    b.  Sharp- 
ham,  near  Glastonbury,  circa 
l.>10;  d.  1607. —331.  1190. 
Dyer,  John.    b.  1700;  d.  1753. 
—  1053. 

Eliot,  George  [Marian  Evans 
Cross],  b.  Warwickshire,  Eng.. 


330 


INDEX   TO    AUTHORS. 


1S20;  d.  Loiulon,  Eng.,  18S0. — 
S62,  1091,  1256,  1270,  1850,  1478, 
1534,  1779, 1832,  1944, 1992,  2092, 
2101. 

£lliott,  Ebenezer.  b.  Mas- 
borough,  Eng.,  17S1  ;  <1.  near 
Barnsley,  Eng..  is4<».  —  104(;. 

£mer8on,  Ralph  Waldo,  b. 
Boston,  Mass.,  180;3 ;  d.  Con- 
cord, Mass.,  1882.  —  105,  161, 
191,  289,  247,  249,  448,  605,  759, 
765,  791,  817,  944,  1428,  1648, 
1678,  1748. 

Everett,  Edward,  b.  Dorches- 
ter, Mass.,  1794  ;  d.  1-505.  —912. 

Faber,  Frederick  William. 

b.  Durham,  Eag.,  1S14 ;  d. 
Bronipton,  Eng.,  1868.  —  1516. 

Falconer,  William,  b.  Edin- 
burgh, Scot.,  1782  ;  shipwrecked 
near  Cape  Good  Hope,  1769.  — 
1069.  1675. 

Fenner,  Cornelius  G.  b. 
1822;  d.  1847.  —1609. 

Fielding:,  Henry,  b.  Sharp- 
ham  Park,  En;;.,  1707;  d.  Lis- 
bon, Spain,  1754.  —1880. 

Fields,  James  Thomas,  b. 
Portsmouth,  N.H.,  1S17 ;  d. 
1881.  —420. 

Finch,  Francis  M.  b.  Ithaca, 
N.Y.,  1827;  .  .  .  .—1878. 

Fletcher,  John.  b.  North- 
hamptonshire,  Eng.,  1576;  d. 
1625.-1304,  1655. 

Ford,  John.  b.  Islington, 
Eng.,  15S6  ;  d.  circa  1689.  — 
115i>. 

Franklin,  Benjamin  ["  Rich- 
ard Saunders"],  b.  Boston, 
Mass.,  1706;  d.  Philadelphia, 
Peun.,  1790.  — 281. 

Garland,   Hamlin,     b.    West 

Salem.    Wis.,    1860;    .   .  .  .  - 

346.  1280.  1761.  2081. 
Garrick,  David,    b.  Lichfield, 

En?.,  1716;  d.   London,   Eng., 

1779.  —406,  1724. 
Garth,     Sir      Samuel.         b. 

Bolam,  Eng.,   circa    1670  ;    d. 

London,  Eng.,  1718. —  1895. 


Gay,  John.  b.  near  Barnstaple, 
Eng.,  16SS;  d.  London,  Eng.. 
1732. —82,  124,  020,  (V42,  7;;.l, 
7«1,  S88,  952,  1416,  14.84,  14;/:, 
1562,  1608,  1677. 

Gifford,  Richard,  b.  1725; 
d.  .Xoriii  e>kend()n,  Eng.,  1807. 
—  1997. 

Goethe,  Johann  Wolfganj; 
von.  b.     Frankfort-on-the- 

Main,  Germanv,  1740;  d.  Wei- 
mar, Germanv.  lS;i2.  —  192. 

Goldsmith,  Oliver,  b.  Pallis, 
Ireland,  172S;  d.  London,  Eng., 
1774.  —35,  58,  107, 189,  340,  341, 
342,  345,  864,  466,  517,  6;39,  695, 
707,  710,  783,  788,  ^49,  901,  1063, 
1107,  1114,  1137, 1297, 1339, 14S7, 
1495, 1589,  1591, 1742, 1750, 1756, 
1934,  1939,  2003,  2064. 

Gould,  Hannah  Flagg.  b. 
Lancaster,  Vt.,  1789  ;  d.  New- 
buryport,  Mass.,  1865.  —  1553. 

Gray,  Thomas,  b.  London, 
Eng.,  1716;  d.  Cambridge,  Eng., 
1771.  -108,  198,  216,  378,  382, 
385,  44;3,  450,  618,  624,  704,  716, 
720,  789,  882,  8;33,  863,  963,  1041, 
1141,  1174,  1687,  1892,  1924, 
2056,  2186. 

Green,  Matthew,  b.  London 
(?),  Eng..  169t);  d.  1737.  -869. 

Greene,  Robert.  b.  Nor- 
wich (?),  circit  1560;  d.  near 
Dowgate,  Eng.,  1592.  —  1105. 

Halleck,    Fitz-Greene.       b. 

Cuilford,  Conn..  1770;  d.  Guil- 
ford, (%)nn.,  1867.-493,  904, 
1313.  1978. 

Halpine,  Charles  Grahame 
[•".Miles  O'Keillv"].  b.  Old- 
castle,  Meath,  Ireland,  1829  ;  d. 
New  York  City.  1868.  —756. 

Harring-ton,  Sir  John.  b. 
;icar  Bath.  Eng.,  circa  1561  ;  d. 
1612.  —  1947. 

Harte,  Francis  Bret.  b. 
Albanv,  N.  Y.,  1S39  :  d.  London, 
Eng.,  "1902.  — 4.38,  1306,  1739. 

Havergal,  Frances  Ridley. 
b.  Worcestershire,  Eng.,  lS8i;; 
d.  Swansea,  Eng.,  1879. —326. 


INDEX   TO    AUTHORS. 


331 


TTav,   John.     b.   Salem,    Ind., 

1S:^S;  d.  1905. —1367. 
llayne,  Paul   Hamilton,     b. 

Charleston,  S.C,  1S31 ;  d.  1886. 

-  2095. 

Heber,  Reginald.  b.  Che- 
shire, Eng.,  1783;  d.  Trichin- 
opoly,  India,  1826. —  501,  934, 
1295. 

Hemans,  Felicia  Dorothea. 
b.  Liverpool,  Eng.,  1793;  d. 
Dublin,  Ireland,  1835.-496, 
717.  907,  1653,  1776. 

Herbert,  George,  b.  in  Mont- 
gomery Castle,  Wales,  1593  ;  d. 
Bemerton,  Wales,  1632.  —  24, 
199,  250,  602,  687,  7S4,  1083, 
1145,  1348,  1467,  1842,  1849, 
1963.  2073. 

Herrick,  Robert,  b.  London, 
Eng.,  1591;  d.  Dean  Prior. 
Eng.,  1674.  — 11,  42,280,  461, 
699,  1697, 1791,  1872,  1914,  1978, 
1985. 

Heywood,  Thomas,  b.  Lin- 
colnshire, Eng.,  1570 ;    d.  1G49. 

—  28,  920. 

Hogg,  James,    b.  Ettrick  For- 

e.-t,  Scot.,  1772  ;  d.  I'^i5.  —801. 
Holmes,    Oliver    Wendell. 

b.  Cambridge,  Mass.,    l509;  d. 

1894.-233,  618,  649.  929,  1241. 

1307,  1314,  1440,  154Y,  1550, 

isoo. 

Home,  John.  b.  Ancrum, 
Scot.,  1724  ;  d.  1808.  —  2G5. 

Hood,  Thomas,  b.  London, 
Eni,'.,  1798-9  :  d.  London,  Enir., 
1845.  -  131,  229.  298,  46:3,  533, 
583.  867,  1208.  1282.  1414.  1438, 
1472.  1652.  1695,  1788.  1904. 

Hopkinson,  Joseph.  b. 
Philadelphia,  Penn..  1770;  d. 
1 '-12. -976. 

Howe,  Julia  Ward.  b.  New 
York,  1819;  .   .  .   .  -320. 

Hunt,  Helen  [Mrs.  Jackson], 
b.  Amherst.  Mass.,  \SS\  ;  d. 
San  Francisco,  Cal,,  1885.—  130, 
1156,  1167. 

Hunt,  James  Henry  Leigh. 
b.  Southgate,  near  London, 
Eng.,  1784;  d.  1859. -1613. 


Hutchinson,  Ellen  Mackay. 

—  1640. 

Ingelow,   Jean.      b.  Ipswich, 

Eng..  is^O  ;    d.  1897.  —9,    180, 
609,  1121,  176U,  2134. 

Jefferys,   Charles,     b.  1807; 

d.  1565.  —231,  245. 
Johnson,    Dr.   Samuel,      b. 

Lichfield,  Eng.,  1709;  d.  Lon- 
don, Eng.,  1784.  —  132,  580, 
590,  768,  815,  857,  945,  965,  989, 
1003.  1111,  1940.  2037. 
Jones,  Sir  William,  b.  Lon- 
don. Eng..  1746  ;  d.  India,  1794. 

—  1064,  1322. 

Jonson,  Ben.  b.  London, 
Eng.,  1573-4  ;  d.  London,  Eng., 
1637.-267.548,828,  1016,  11U2. 
1210,  1508,  1616,  1658,  1986. 

Keats,  John.  b.  London,  Eng., 
1795;  d.  Kome,  Italv,  1821.— 
127.  159.  919,  1130,  1236,  1267, 
1352,  14^33.  1535,  1730,  1969. 

Keble,  John.  b.  Coln-St.-Ald- 
wynds,  Eng.,  ch^ca  1792 ;  d. 
Bournemouth,  Eng.,  1866.  — 
1298. 

Kemble,  Frances  Anne.  b. 
London,  Eng.,  1811  ;  d.  1893.  — 
248. 

Kingsley,  Charles,  b.  Devon- 
shire, Eng..  1819  ;  d.  Everslev, 
Eng..l875.  —  15,  277,  290,  348, 
516.  785.  823,  1031,  1161,  1360, 
1519.  2105. 

Kipling,  Rudyard.  b.  Bom- 
bay, India,  1865;  .  .  .  . — 744, 
2093. 

Lamb,  Charles,  b.  London, 
Eng.,  1775;  d.  London,  Eng., 
1>:U.  -  311. 

Landor,  ^Valter  Savage,  b. 

lp>!oy  r(nirt,  Warwickshire, 
Ens.,'  1775;  d.  Florence,  Italv, 
18W.  —26:3.  688. 
Landsdowne,  Lord  [George 
Granville],  b.  Bideford,  Eng., 
1667;  d.  London,  Eng.,   1735. 

—  835. 


332 


INDEX    TO    AUTHORS. 


Larcoui,     Lucy.     b.     Beverly 

Farms,  Mass.,  1826,  d.  lii\)3.  — 

840. 
Lee,   Nathaniel,   b.    England, 

lt)55;  d.  London,  Eng.,  10^2.  - 

844. 
Linley,   George,    b.    London, 

Eng.,    17'.»8;   d.    France,    1805. 

-  7,   11 TS. 

Lof ft,  CapeL  b.  London,  Eng., 
1751  ;  d.   France,  1824.  -  5:3. 

Logan,  John.  b.  Soutra,  ^cot., 
1748;  d.  17S8.  -  mG. 

Longfellow,  Henry  Wads- 
worth,  b.  Portland,  Ale.,  18U7  , 
d.  Cambridge,  .Mass.,  18S2.  — 
110,  141,  150,  177,  307,  321, 
499,  6:32,  654,  733,  742,  780, 
796,  942,  948,  1017,  1045,  1055, 
1074,  1089,  1261,  1302,  1311, 
1316,  1427,  1551,  1603,  1633, 
1734,  1S06,  1831,  1887,  1889, 
2026,    20.}3,    2112,    2135. 

Lovelace,  Richard,  b.  Wool- 
wich, Enij.,  1618  ;  d.  London, 
Eng.,  lt).-)S.  —  144,   1384. 

Lover,  Samuel,  b.  Dublin,  Ire- 
land, 1797;  d.  18(;8.  —  1483. 

Lowe,  John.  b.  1750;  d.  1798. 

—  1217. 

Lowell,  James   Russell,    b. 

Cambridge,    Mass.,     1819;     d. 

1891.  — 304,  323,  335,  391,  503, 

514,    611,  635,  810,   1012,    1054, 

1226,  1420,  1923,  1970,  2083. 
Lowell.    Maria    White,     b. 

Watertown,    Mass.,    1821  ;    d. 

1853.  — 1981. 
Lowth,  Robert,  b.  Winchester, 

Eng.,  1710;  d.  1787.  —1403. 
Lyly,  john.b.  Kent,  Eng., circ^/ 

15.^3;  d.  eirat  1600.  —  2o60. 

Macaulay,  Thomas  Babing- 
ton.  b.  Itothley  Tem|)lc,  Eng., 
1800;  d.  Kensington,  London, 
Eng.,  1859.  —  495. 

Macdonald,  George,  b.  Hunt- 
ley, Scot.,  1824  ;  d.  1905.— 2054. 

Marlowe,  Christopher,  b. 
Canterbury,  Eng.,  1565;  d. 
Deptford,  Eng.,  1593.  —  213, 
1511,  1518,  1670. 


Martial  [Marcus  Valerius  Mar- 
tiahs].  t).  liilbilis,  Spain,  43; 
d.  Hilbilis,  Spain,  104.  -  505. 

Massinger,  Philip,  b.  near 
Wilton,  Eng.,  15>4  ;  d.  on  the 
Hanksidc,  l(i3y-40.  -—  1411,  lt>17. 

Mee,  William.  -  675. 

"Meredith,  Owen"  [Lord 
Edward  Robert  Bulwer  Lyt- 
tonj.  b.  Herts,  Eng.,  1831  ;  d. 
1891.  —225,  640,  645,  866,  981, 
1000,  1127,  1245,  1491,  1900, 
2102. 

Mickle,  William  Julius,  b. 
Dumfriesshire,  Scot.,  1734;  d. 
17>5S.  —946. 

Middleton,  Thomas,  d.  1626. 
—  16,    134,    1502. 

Miller,  "Joaquin"  Cincin- 
natus  Uiner.  b.  Indiana, 
1840  ;....-  371,  477,  647, 
1030,   118.5,   1828. 

Milnes,  Richard  Monckton 
[Lord  Houghton],  b.  York- 
sliire,  Eng.,  1809;  d.  1835.— 
8;)0,  -2041. 

Milton,  John.  b.  London, 
Eng.,  1608;  d.  London,  Eng., 
1674.  -  1,  4,  IS,  08,  77,  78, 
80,  90,  112,  117,  120,  157,  170, 
186,  187,  207,  275,  284,  288, 
300,  312,  336,  856,  360,  373, 
381,  383,  387,  397,  416,  429, 
441,  445,  456,  468,  492,  515, 
518,  520,  526,  539,  551,  563, 
576,  595,  597,  600,  607,  608, 
610,  628.  631,  634,  652,  667, 
696,  701,  711,  712,  735,  740, 
770,  797,  802,  804,  809,  847, 
877,  880,  892,  895,  896,  931, 
935,  956,  982,  991,  1001,  1018, 
102.5,  1037,  1052,  1057,  1060, 
1077,  1081,  1085,  1094,  1100, 
1160,  1169,  1173,  1184,  1187, 
1192,  1213,  121.5,  1220,  1248, 
1255,  1260,  1287,  1310,  1320, 
1325,  1331,  1371,  1380,  1397, 
1399,  1402,  1406,  1421,  1489, 
1447,  14.54,  1494,  1497,  1500, 
1.505,  1509.  1512,  1525,  1569, 
1.597,  1611,  1612,  1628,  10.50, 
1654,  1660,  1661,  166.5,  1693, 
1740,    1758,    1777,    1783,    1840, 


INDEX    TO    AUTHORS. 


333 


1&44,  1S73.  1906,  1908,  1919, 
iy:36,  1949,  1975,  1999,  2013, 
2015,  2020,  2(m,  2035,  2<»3>, 
2046,  2(»rt9,  20S4,  2097,  2100, 
210-i.    2l:>-5. 

Montagu,  Lady  Mary  Wort- 
ley,  b.  Londnii,  Lilt:.,  virca 
liJUO  ;  d.  Loudon,  Eiii,'.,  HOi.  - 
5^5. 

Montgomery,  James,  h.  Ir- 
Nine,  !5C()t.,  1771  ,  d.  sliettield, 
Ensr.,  1-554. —232,  100s,  1256, 
15S-2. 

Moore,  Clement  C.  b.  New 
York,  1779  ;  d.  1>G3.  -  328. 

Moore,  Thomas,  b.  Dublin, 
Ireland,  1779  ,  d.  near  De\ize.>i, 
Eng.,  1S52.  —  171,  221,  314,  436, 
481,  547,  554,  655,  &05,  812,  S72, 
1113,  1646,  1743,  1757,  1S24, 
1534,  1941,  2109. 

More,  Hannah,  b.  Stapleton, 
En>,'.,  1745 ;  d.  Clifton,  Eng., 
1S;33.  -  660,  S.^U,  163S,  1955. 

Morris,  Charles,  b.  1739  ;  d. 
1S32.  -  212. 

Morris.  George  P.  b.  Phila- 
delphia, Penn.,  1>>02  ;  d.  Kew 
York  City,  1S&4.  —  2096. 

Nairne,  Lady  Caroline  Oli- 

phant.     b.  Gask,    Perthshire. 

Scot.,    1766;    d.  Gask,  1845.- 

lO.^S. 
Noel,  Thomas.  —  202. 
Norris,   John.      b.    Wiltshire, 

Eng.,  1657  ;  d.  1711.-  95. 

O'Hara,  Theodore,    b.  1820: 

<i.  !^<;7.  —  i>i. 

Otway,  Thomas,  b.  Totting- 
ton,  Eng.,  1651  ;  d.  London, 
Eng.,  1685. -2085. 

Parnell,  Thomas,     b.  Dublin, 

Ireland,  1679  :  d.  Chester,  Eng., 

1717-lS.  — 112.0,  2057. 
Payne,   John    Howard,      b. 

New     Y'ork     Citv,     1792 ;     d. 

Tunis.  Africa.  1S52.  — 916. 
Peele,  George,    b.  Devonshire, 

Eng..  Iwl-h-^:  d.  W.><.  -  1846. 
Percival,  James  Gates,    b. 


Berlin,  Conn.,  1795;  d.  Hazel- 
green,  Wis.,  1856.  —727,  1049. 
Percy,  Bishop  Thoiuas.     b. 

Uridgeiiorth,  Eng.,  ITJ5,  d. 
Drosnore,  Eng.,  Isll.— 343, 
2051. 

Pierpont,  John.  b.  Litch- 
tield,  Conn.,  1785;  d.  1866.— 
2050. 

"Pindar,  Peter"  [Dr.  John 
Walcotj.  b.  Dodbrook,  Eng., 
173S;  d.  Somers'  Town,  Eng., 
1S19.  -269. 

Pitt,  William,  b.  Hayes,  near 
Brouilev.  Eng.,  1759;  d.  1806. 
—  16Ht.' 

Poe,  Edgar  Allan,  b.  Bos- 
ton, Mass..  1N09;  d.  Baltimore, 
Md..  1^^49.-173,  1531. 

Pollock,  Robert,  b.  Eagles- 
ham,  t?cot.,  1799  ;  d.  Shirley 
Common,  Eng.,  1827.-957, 
1721. 

Pope,  Alexander,  b.  Lon- 
don, Eng.,  10?>;  d.  Twicken- 
ham, Eng.,  1744.-2,  8,  45, 
64,  70.  73,  82,  83,  93,  108.  122, 
123,  136,  162,  188,  219,  260,  262, 
276,  285,  289,  294,  299,  308,  329, 
358,  898,  402.  409,  411,  430,  432, 
436,  440,  452,  464,  478,  507,  544, 
589,  609,  621,  64:3,  668.  668,  671, 
682,  683,  685,  731,  737,  745,  767, 
811,  829,  831,  855,  869,  886,  897, 
902,  905,  922,  926,  932,  943,  95<t, 
1038,  1047,  1048,  1061,  1067, 
1092,  1146,  1152,  1182,  1195, 
1197,  1218,  1238,  1250,  126:3, 
1266,  1280,  1288,  1329,  1356, 
1364,  1369,  1392,  140o.  1413, 
1417,  1418,  1423,  1441,  1444, 
1459,  1474,  1482,  1485,  1492, 
1514,  1517,  1542,  1543,  1548, 
l.^>58,  1564,  1574,  1592,  1618, 
1623,  1631,  1636,  1645,  1725, 
1765,  1766,  1775,  180;3,  lh37, 
1863,  1974,  1989,  1995,  1996, 
2000.  2014,  2058,  2067,  2087, 
211.3,  2115,  2117.  2123,2127. 

Pope,  Dr.  Walter,  b.  circa 
1630;  d.  1714. —  1624. 

Porteus,  Beilby.  b.  York, 
Eng.,  1731;  d.  I&08.  —  438. 


np>4 


INDEX    TO    AUTHORS. 


Praed,      Winthrop       Mac- 

\vorth.       1).     Lumlon,     ICiiy:.. 

1S02;  d.    London,    Enj,'.,    ISo'J. 

—  137,  ll:«. 
Preston,  Margaret  Junkin. 

b.    Lexin^'ton,    Xa..,    l5^35;    d. 

1-^97. —  Oil,  i>!)2,  rJ54. 
Prior,     Matthew.      b.     near 

Wiinborne-Minster,  En?.,  1664; 

d.  Wimpole,  Eng.,   1721.  —61), 

62;!,  'MVl,  900.  1126,  1359. 
Procter,       Bryan       Waller 

["  IJarry  Cornwall"],     b.  Lon- 

d)M,    Ens?.,    17S7;    d.    lS7i. — 

1211,  1606. 

Kabelais,  Francois,  b.  Chi- 
no:i,  France,  14:S:^-:)5 :  d.  Paris, 
France.  ISfv-^  —  546. 

Raleigh,  Sir  Walter.  b. 
lUidiei-h,  Imi-..  1552  ;  d.  Lon- 
don. Emit..  161S.  —  |:5.I5,  1611. 

Read,  Tlioniag  Buchanan. 
b.  Chestor,  Ponn..  H22 ;  d. 
New  York  Citv,  1ST2.  -  1796. 

Rochester,  Earl  of  [.John 
Wilinoi].  b.  Ditciiley,  Eng., 
1647  ;  (1.  l6so.  —736. 

Rogers,  Samuel,  b.  Stoi<e 
Newington,  Eng.,  1763;  d. 
London,  Eng.,  1S55.  — 1172, 
1175,  1240,  1546. 

Roscommon,  Earl  of  [Wcnt- 
worth  Dillon].  b.  Ireland, 
1633;  d.  London,  Eng.,  16S4. 
—  512. 

Rossetti,  Chri.stina  Geor- 
giana.  b.  London,  Eng., 
1S30:  d.  1S94.  — 347,  726,  949, 
1536.  ir,r»2. 

Rossetti,  Dante  Gabriel,  b. 
London,  En^.,  IsiS;  d.  Lon- 
don. Eng.,  18S2.  —1029,  1171. 

Rowe,  Nicholas,  b.  Little 
Barford,  Eng.,  1673-74;  d. 
London,  Eng.,  171S.  —  1199, 
2077. 

Raskin,  John.  b.  London, 
Eng.,  1S19;  d.  1900. —121, 
1265,  127S,  1671. 

Salis,  J.  G.  von.  b.  1762  ;  d. 
lS:i4.  —  194. 


Sargent,  Epes.  b.  Glouces 
ter,  Mass.,  1^12;  d.  18S1. - 
2ii33. 

Savage,  Richard,  b.  Lon- 
don. Eng.,  16US;  d.  1748.— 
1424. 

Saxe,  John  Godfrey,  b. 
llighgate,    Vt.,   Isl6;    d.  lSs7. 

—  210,  s<;i. 

Scliiller,  Johann  Chris- 
toph     Friedrich     von.     b. 

Marbach,  Ger.,  1759;  d.  Wei- 
mar, Ger.,  1805. —  109,  497, 
1007,  1273,  1477,  1629,  1712, 
1915,  1927,  20s;3. 

Scott,  Sir  Walter,  b.  Edin- 
i)iirgh,  Scot.,  1771  ;  d.  .\bbots- 
f,)rd,  Scot.,  1S32.  —  327,  509, 
.5:^5,  702,  732,  826,  893,  1050, 
1051,  1103,  1134,  1214,  1436, 
15)1,  1.524,  1622,  1669,  1732, 
i  ';74.  2090. 

Sedley,  Charles.  b.  Kent, 
Knir..  1639:  d.  1701.-201. 

Shakespeare,  William,  b. 
Stratt'ord-on-.\von.  Eng.,  15fU; 
d.  Stratford-on-.Vvon,  Eng., 
1616.  -3,  .5.  6,  12,13,  14,17,21, 
25,  26,  27,  29,  33,  37,  38,  41,  46, 
47,  51,  .52,  .54,  55,  56,  66,  (m,  72, 
74,  75,  86,  87,  88,  89,  91,  94,  96, 
97,  99,  101,  111,  113,  114,  118, 
119,  126,  133,  139,  140,  145,  152, 
1.54,  1.55,  1.56,  16.5,  167,  168,  182, 
190,  19.5,  197,  200,  201,  203,  211, 
214,  21.5,  217,  220,  223,  224,  228, 
235,  237,  241,  24^?,  2.53,  2.54,  2.55, 
2.57,  2.59,  261,  266,  271,  272,  273, 
278,  279,  283,  286.  287,  293,  29.5, 
297.  .306,  316,  318.  332,  334,  3.50, 
353,  3.55,  361,  362,  367,  370,  372, 
374,  37.5,  376,  377,  380,  386,  389, 
390,  .392,  394,  .396,  399,  400,  410, 
414,  41.5,  417,  418,  422,  424,  42.5, 
426,  437,  439,  444,  446,  447,  4.53, 
4.54,  4.55,  4.57,  458,  +59,  462,  471, 
472,  475,  480,  482,  4^3,  48-:,  489, 
490,  491,  .508,  513.  521.  .524,  .528, 
529,  542,  .543,  .545,  .5.50,  .5.57,  .553, 
560.  564,  565.  567,  568,  569,  573, 
57.5.  .577,  .578.  .579,  .581,  .587,  601, 
603,  616,  617,  t\-M\  fi38,  641,  644, 
653,  657,  659,  665,  666,  673,  674, 


INDEX    TO    AUTHORS. 


335 


678, 

692, 

753, 

792, 

816, 

83S, 

870, 

921, 

941, 

984, 

1009, 

1021, 

104:3, 

1072, 

1104, 

1140. 

1157, 

IISO, 

1200, 

1212, 

1247, 

1274, 

1289, 

1317, 

1333, 

1361. 

1389, 

1422, 

145fi, 

14713, 

1499. 

1544. 

1572. 

1590, 

1615, 

1643, 

1664, 

1690. 

1707. 

1727. 

1755. 

1789. 

1804, 

1820, 

1845, 

1866, 

1885, 

1896. 

1913, 

194:?. 

1977, 

2001, 

2016, 


679,  6&4,  686,  689,  690, 
705,  709,  718,  722,  724. 
754,  755,  763,  7&4,  774. 
794,  795,  798,  800,  803. 
818,  821,  824,  825,  827, 
8:39,  845,  846,  853,  854. 
873,  876,  885,  891,  894. 
923,  924,  930,  938,  939. 
955,  961,  966,  973.  977. 
985,  988,  999,  1002, 
,1010,1013,1015,1019, 
,  1023, 1026,  1027, 1033, 
,  1056,  10r,2,  1065,  1068, 
,  1076, 1082, 1084, 1098, 
,1103,1112,1118,1119, 
,1142,114:3,1144,1151, 
,  115S,  llt;4,  1165,  1170, 
,  11S3, 1191,  1194,  1196, 
, 1202, 1203, 1204, 1205, 
,  1219, 1225,  1233,  1235, 
,  1254, 1259,  1269,  1270, 
,1279,1281,1283,1285, 
,1290,1291,  1301,1308, 
,  1318, 1326,  1327,  1328, 
,1338,1:341,1342,1357, 
.  1368, 1370.  1378,  1386. 
,1:396,1398,1408.14(19. 
,  1426, 14-30,  144:3.  144S. 
,  1458,  1463.  1468,  1469. 
14<4,  14>(\  148S,  14S9, 
1521.1527.1528,15:32, 
15,52.  1555,  1565, 1566, 
157^1579,1581,1586. 
1594.1595,1598,1605. 
1619,1626,1630,1635, 
1644,1649,1653,1656, 
1674,1681,1684,1685, 
1696,1698.1700.1701, 
170s.  ITU.  1720, 1722, 
173^.1744. 1745, 1746, 
1762. 1763,  1769, 1778, 
1790.1797.1798.1801, 
130.\  l>ii3.  1^09,  1812, 
1829,1835,1838,1841, 
1848,1850.  1854,1855, 
1869.1870,1871,1879, 
1890.  1891,1893,1894, 
1899,1905,1907,1911, 
1925,1929,1930,193:3, 
1945,1946,1958,1959, 
1980,1982,1983,1987, 
2005,  2006,2010,2011. 
2017,2022,2023,2027, 


,  691, 

,  750, 
,  777, 
,  808, 
,  830, 
,  866, 
,  909, 
,  940, 
,  983, 
1004, 
1020, 
10:34, 
1071, 
1099, 
li;39, 
1153, 
1176. 
1198, 
1207. 
1242. 
1272, 
1286. 
1809, 
1332, 
1359. 
1388, 
1415^ 
1451. 
1470. 
14911. 
15:33, 
1567, 
1587. 
1614. 
1641. 
1662. 
1689, 
1706, 
1726. 
1754, 
1782, 
1802. 
1816, 
1843. 
1857, 
ISSl, 
1895, 
1912. 
1942, 
1961, 
1993, 
2012. 
2030, 


2036,  2039,  2040,  2044,  2045,  2052, 
2061,  2066,  2070,  2078,  2082,  2098, 
2099,  2106,  2107,  211 1,  2114,  2116, 
2118,  21 19.  2120, 2126,  2130,  2132, 
2133.  21:37. 

Sheffield,  John  [Duke  of 
Butkinghamshirej.  b.  1649; 
d.  17-20. —918,  2122. 

Shelley,  Percy  Bysshe.  b. 
near  Horsham,  tug.,  1792  ; 
drowned  in  the  Gulf  of  Spezia, 
Italy,  1822.-442,  502,  588,596, 
683.  899.  1024,  1294,  1363,  1503, 
1823,  1928,  1991,2008. 

Shenstone,  William.  b. 
Leasowes,  Eng.,  1714  ;  d.  Lea- 
sowe?.  Eng  .17<;3.  —  987,  17:36. 

Sheridan,  Richard  Brinsley 
Butler,  b.  Dublin,  Ireland, 
1751  ;  d.  London.  Eng.,  1816.— 
2121. 

Shirley,  Janaes.  b.  London, 
Eng.,  1594;  d.  London,  Eng., 
1666.-23. 

Sidney,  Sir  Philip,  b.  Pens- 
hurst.  Eng.,  1554:  d.  Arnheim, 
Holland,  1586.  -  1728. 

Sigourney,  Lydia  Huntley. 
b.  Korwich,  Conn.,  1791; 
d.  Hartford,  Conn.,  1863.— 
1253, 

Smith,  Alexander,  b.  Kil- 
marnock, Scot.,  1830;  d. 
Wardie.  Scot.,  1867.  —  572, 
1163.    1429. 

Smith,  James,  b.  London, 
Eng.,  1775;  d.  London,  Eng., 
1839.- 1676. 

Smith,  Samuel  Francis,  b. 
Boston.  Mass.,  1808;  d.  1895. 
—  1315. 

Smollett,  Tohias  George,  b, 
near  Kenton,  Eng.,  1721  ;  d. 
Leghorn.  Italy,  1771.  -975. 

Southey,  Robert,  b.  Bristol, 
Eng.,  1774;  d.  Cumberland, 
Ens-.,  1843.-147.  974,  2002. 

Spenser,  £dmund.  b.  Lon- 
don. En?.,  1553  ;  d.  London, 
Eng.,  1599.  — 125,  302.  421,  510, 
55.5.  998.  1011.  1120.  1181,  1224, 
1264.  1540.  1719.  1882. 

Sprague,  Charles,    b.  Boston, 


330 


indp:x  to  authors. 


Mass.,  1791  ;  d.  Boston,  Mass.. 
1875.-1249. 

Stedinan,  Kdiuund  Clar- 
ence. I).  Hartford,  (Oriti., 
ISW;  d.  lyo*.  —  2%,  G'25,  10:39. 

Stevens,  George  Alexaiuler. 
b.  London,  Eng.,  1720  ;  d.  17»4. 

Stevenson,  Robert  Loiiis 
Balfour.  b.  Edinbur-,'!), 
Scot.,  ls.")(l;  d.  Island  of 
iSainoa.  1894.  —  1(16,  l^,  258, 
915.  1257.  IS  1 9.  2065. 

Stoddard.  Richard  Henry. 
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—  54.  12S.  .Sio.  741,  1101,  1,5:39. 

Story,  Joseph.  b.  Marble- 
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Suckling,  Sir  John.  b.  Whit- 
t<;n.  EnfT.,  l(lt,'5-'J;  d.  Paris, 
France,  1G41-2.  —4(57,  t>40,  1 122. 

Swift,  Jonathan,  b.  Dabliii. 
Ireland,  1()(J7 ;  d.  Dublii. 
Ireland,  1745.-719,  721,  'JO:!. 
1(10."). 

Swinburne,  Algernon 
Charles.  b.  llolmwooil, 
Eujr.,    18:37  ;....  — 1097. 

Taylor,  Bayard,  b.  Kennett 
Sq.,  Penn.,  1S25 ;  d.  Berlin, 
Ger..  1S7S.  — 476.  1044,  lOSS, 
1S1:3,  188'^.  2()()8. 

Taylor,  Sir  Henry,  b.  Dur- 
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449. 

Taylor,  Jane.  b.  London, 
Eng.,  178:3  ;  d.  Ongar,  Esse.x- 
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Tennyson,  Alfred,  b.  8om- 
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151,  "166,  172,  246,  292.  319,  325, 
3:33,  3:38,  584,  606,  626,  6:30,  648, 
661,  779,  820,  881,  900,  927,  95:3, 
1032,  1040,  1093,  1117,  iVK, 
1293,  1374,  1387,  1461,  14(i2, 
1607,  1699,  1711,  1771,  17^(;, 
1826,    1876.    1902,    2131. 

Thaxter,  Celia  Leighton. 
b.  I'ortsmouth,  N.ll.,  1S35  ;  d. 
ls'.»4.  — 197(5. 

Thomas,     Frederick   Will- 


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1^11  :  d.  1866.-10. 

Thomson,  Jantes.  b.  Ednam, 
Seot.,  1700;  (1.  Kew,  Eng., 
1748. —:36,  339,  :22,  622,  693, 
752,  913,  951,  959,  1206,  1343, 
1479,  1480,  1545,  17sO,  1785, 
1787,  1827,  1839,  18S3,  1971, 
20t)2. 

Tickell,  Thomas.  b.  near 
Carlisle,  Eng.,  1686;  d.  Bath, 
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Tobin,  John.  b.  Salisbury, 
Eng.,  1770;  d.  1804.  —427. 

Toplady,  Augustus  Mon- 
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Trumbull,  John.  b.  Leba- 
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("ity,  l>:il.— bC>4. 

Tupper,  Martin  Farquhar. 
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Tusser,  Thomas,  b.  Kiveii 
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Usteri,  Johann  3Iartin.    b. 

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Vaughan,  Henry,  b.  Breck- 
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Wade,  J.  A.  b.  1800 ;  d.  1875. 
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Waller,  Edmund,  b.  Coles- 
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Walton.  Izaak.  b.  StaflFord, 
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Warton,  Thomas,  b.  liasing- 
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Watts,  Isaac,  b.  South  Hamp- 
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155y.  1570,  1737,  1972,  2021. 

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IXDEX    TO    AUTHORS. 


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401. 

Whitman,  Walt.  b.  Long 
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—  2M. 

Whittier,  John  Greenleaf. 
b.  Haverhill,  Mass.,  I>u7 ;  d. 
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Willis,  Nathaniel  Parker. 
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Winter,  William,  b.  Glou- 
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Wither,  George,  b.  Brent- 
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Wolfe,  Charles,  b.  Dublin, 
Ireland.  1791 ;  d.  Cove  of  Cork, 
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Woodworth.  Samuel.  b. 
Scituate.  Mass.,  17>5:  d.  New 
York  City,  1>42.  —  244. 

Wordsworth,   William,     b. 


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34,  01,  16:3,  174,  17^,  206,  256, 
274,  301,  309,  473,  4t>7,  523,  527, 
571,  593,  662,  743,  757,  769,  806, 
822,  8^34,  917,  937.  947,  958,  968, 
970,  1022,  1042,  1096, 11S6, 1324, 
1353,  1366,  1381,  1432,  1446, 
145:3,  1520,  1526,  1530,  1627, 
im2,  16=34,  1660,  1753,  1767, 
1774.  17S1,  17>4,  1807,  1815, 
1>75,  19.^3.  2007.  2124. 
Wotton,  Sir  Henry.  b. 
Boughton  Malherbe,  Eng., 
156S ;  d.  Eaton,  Eng.,  1039.  — 
1116,  1715. 

Young,  Edward,  b.  Upham, 
Eng.,  16>1 ;  d.  Welwvn,  Eng., 
1765.  —48.  57.  115,  179,  184,36:3, 
404.  4:34.  494,  525,  561,  980, 1070, 
13S5,  1410,  1455,  1465,  1471, 
1602,  1729,  1763,  1810,  1860, 
186S,    1918,    1956,    2071,    2079. 


INDEX  TO  QUOTATIONS. 


The  references  designate  the  numhers  of  the  Quotations. 


Abbots,  purple  as  their  wines,  2. 
Abdiel,  so  spake  the  seraph,  4. 
Absence  conquers  love,  10. 

of  occupation  is  not  rest,  960. 

whole  years  in,  to  deplore,  8. 
Abstinence,  the  defensive  virtue, 

11. 
Abyss,  beyond  is  all,  C28. 
Accident,  by  many  a  happy,  16. 

the  unthouffht-on.  13. 
Accidents  by  flood  and  tield,  14. 

our  wanton,  take  root,  15. 
Account,  sent  to  m\^,  IT. 
Accounts,  draw  the',  of  evil.  3SS. 
Acquaintance,    should    auld,    be 

forgot,  20. 
Acting  of  a  dreadful  thing,  437. 
Action,  of  everv   noble,   the   in- 
tent, 22. 

pleasure  and,  make  the  hours 
seem  short.  21. 
Actions  of  the  just,  23. 
Acts,  our,  our  angels  are,  16.55. 
Adam  dolve  and  Eve  span,  793. 

the  goodliest  man.  631. 

whipped  the  offending,  389. 
Adieu,  my  native  shore,  31. 

she  cried,  32. 
Admiration,  season  your,   for    a 

while,  33. 
Adorning  with  so  much  art,  479. 
Adversary,  a  stony,  446. 
Adversite,  fortunes  sharpe.  40. 
Adversity,  bruised  with,  38. 

sweet  are  the  uses  of  37. 
Advice,  danger  to  give,  to  kings, 
42. 

't  was  good,  44. 

worst   men    often    give    the 
best.  43. 


Affectation,  with  a  sickly  mien, 

45. 
Affection  is  a  coal  that  must  be 

cooled,  47. 
Affliction    is    enamored    of    thy 
parts,  255. 
is  the  good    man's    shi  .ng 

scene,  43. 
tries  our  virtue,  49. 
Affliction's  sons  are  brothers  in 

distress,  242. 
Affronts,  voung  men  soon  give, 

50.  ' 
Age  cannot  -vnther  her,  .55. 
I  must  not  tell  my,  58. 
rock  the  cradle  of',  4;32. 
when,  is  in,  wit  is  out,  51. 
Agent,  trust  no.  279. 
Ages,  alike  all,  466. 
Aim,  failed  in  the  high,  65. 
Air,  tlie,  a  chartered  libertine,  66. 
Alacrity  in  sinking,  67. 
Ale,  drink  of  Adam's,  69. 

the  spicy  nut-brown,  6^. 
Alexandrine,  a  needless,  70. 
Alone  on  a  ^vide  sea,  71. 
Amazement  on  thy  mother  sits, 

72. 
Amber,  to  observe  the  forms  in, 

73. 
Ambition  finds  such  joy,  78. 
fling  away,  74. 
has  but  one  reward,  76. 
to  reign  is  worth,  77. 
which  o'erleaps  itself,  75. 
America,     half-brother     of     the 

world,  79. 
Anarch,  thy  hand,  great,  478. 
Anarchy,  hold  eternal,  SO. 
Ancient  of  days,  116. 


t40 


INDEX    TO    QUOTATIONS. 


Angels  ci>me  and  po,  84. 
lackey  her,  30(1. 
wliere,  fear  to  tread,  S3. 
Angels'  visits,  short  and  far  be- 
tween, S.*i. 
Anger  never  made  good  guard, 

ST. 
Anger's  my  meat,  86. 
Angling,  the  pleasantest,  89. 

wagered  on  your,  S9. 
Anna,  here  thou*  great,  411. 
Anti()uitv,  wavs  «f  hoar,  92. 
Apathy,  "in  lazy,  93. 
Apollo's  laurel  bough,  213. 
Apostles  would  have  done.  176. 
Apostolic     blows    and     knocks, 

574. 
Apparel,  fashion  wears  out  more, 

67S. 
oft  proclaims  the  man,  94. 
Apparition,  a  lovely,  527. 
Apparitions,  like,  seen  and  gone, 

95. 
Appearances  to    save,   his    only 

care,  98. 
Appetite,  good  digestion  wait  on, 

99. 
grown    by    what  it   fed   on, 

46. 
stands  cook.  100. 
Applaud  to  the  very  echo,  101. 
Applause,  attentive  to  his    own, 

•27(). 
of  listening  senates,  103. 
oh,  popular,  102. 
Apples,  since  Eve  ate,  553. 

small  choice  in  rotten,  316. 
April  cold   with   dropping  rain, 

105. 
Aprile  has  fairly  come,  106. 
Aprille,    with   his   shoures    sote, 

104. 
Arabs,  fold  their  tents  like  the, 

1SS9. 
Arch,  look  on  its  broken,  1716. 
Arguing,  in,   the   parson   owned 

his  skill.  107. 
Argument,  height  of  this  great, 

1399. 
Arms  on  armor  clashing,  381. 
Arrow,  shot  mine,  o'er  the  house, 

241. 
swifter  than,  1845. 


Art  is  the  child  of  Nature,  110. 
Nature  is  but,  2s9. 
O  man,  is  thine  alone,  109. 
Artist,  in  framing  an.  111. 
Aspect,  with  grave,  he  rose,  112. 
Aspiration    lifts    him    from     the 

earth.  113. 
Assurance  double  sure,  I  '11  make, 

114. 
Asters,  purple,  nod,  130. 
Atheist,  bv  night  an.  half  believes 

a  God,  115. 
Athena,  august.  116. 
Athens,  the  eye  of  Greece.  117. 
Attachment   to    the   wvll-kiiown 

place,  914. 
Attempt  and  not  the  deed.  IIS. 
Auburn,  sweet,  2003. 
August  round  her  precious  gifts 

is  Hinging,  121. 
Aurora,    fair    daughter    of    the 

dawn,  122. 
Author,  no,  ever  spared  a  brother, 

124. 
Authority,  drest  in  a  little  brief, 

126. 
Authors  steal  their  works,  123. 
Autumn  in  the  misty  morn.  131. 
succeeds,  a  sober,  tepid  age, 

1610. 
who  may  yiaint  thee,  128. 
wins  you  best,  129. 
Avarice,  a  good  old-gentlemanly 

vice.  133. 
creeping  on,  409. 
old  men  sicken  of,  134. 
Awkward,  embarrassed,  stiff,  135. 

Bacchus  with  pink  eyne,  2006. 
Backward,  turn  backw.ard,  313. 
Balances,  Jove  lifts   the   golden, 

136. 
Ball,  I  saw  her  at  a  county,  137. 
Banishment,  bitter  bread  "of,  138. 
Banner  with  the  strange  device, 

141. 
Banners,  all  thy,  wave,  142. 

hang  out  our,  140. 
Bard,  blind,  on  Chian  strand,  143. 
Bark,  fatal  and  perfidious,  456. 
Battle  line,  our  far-flung,  744, 

rages  loud  and  long,  149. 

who  in  life's,  194. 


INDEX    TO    QUOTATIONS. 


141 


Beams  athwart  the  sea,  151. 
Bear,  rugged  Russian,  414. 
Beard,  his  tawny,  15;3. 

was  as  white  as  snow,  152. 
Beast,    that   wants  discourse   of 

reason,  154. 
Beauty,  a  thing  of,  is  a  joy,  159. 

cost  her  nothing,  65S. 

draws  us  with  a  single  hair, 
162. 

dwells  in  deep  retreats,  163. 

is  a  vain  and  doubtful  good, 
156. 

is  its  own  excuse,  161. 

needs    not    the    flourish     of 
praise,  155. 

stands  in  the  admiration,  157. 
Bed,  in,  we  laugh,  1(34. 

the,  was  made,  "iSS. 
Bees,    murmuring    of   innumer- 
able, 166. 
Beggars,  mounted,  167. 

when,  die.  16S. 
Beggary,    impotent    and      snail- 
paced,   524. 
Behavior,  upon  his  good,  169. 
Belial,  sons  of,  170. 
Bell,  merrj'  as  a  marriage,  651. 

the  Sabbath,  1546. 
Bells,  mellow  wedding,  173. 

ring  out,  wild,  172. 

those  evening,  171. 
Bethlehem,  hail  to  the   king  of, 

321. 
Birds  in  their  little  nests,  672. 
Birth  is  but  a  sleep,  173. 
Birthday,  a  day  that  rose,  ISO. 
Bivouac  of  the  dead,  181. 
Blasphemy  in  the  soldier,  1S2. 
Blessedness,  dies  in  single,  2SS. 
Blessings  brighten  as   they  take 
their  flight,  1S4. 

wait  on  virtuous  deeds,  1S5. 
Blind  among  enemies,  187. 
Bliss  which  centres  in  the  mind, 

1S9. 
Blood,  a  drop  of  manly,  191. 

flesh  and,  so  cheap,  229. 

is  a  juice  of  special  kind,  192. 

when  the,  burns,  190. 
Boat,  swiftly  glides  the  bonniw. 

19S. 
Body,  upon  my  burned,  598. 


Bond,  I  '11  have  my,  200. 
Bones,  come  to  lay  his,  among 
ye,  56. 
cursed  be  he  that  moves  my, 

201. 
flesh  hacked  from,  709. 
rattle    his,   over  the  stones, 

202. 
thy,  are  raarrowless,  795. 
Book,  a,  0  rare  one,  2o3, 
Books  are  a  world,  206. 

cannot  always  please,  205. 
deep  versed'in,  207. 
in  the  running  brooks,  37. 
many,  are  wearisome,  1439. 
some,  are  lies,  2o3. 
the  best  companions,  204. 
Bore,   sound  that    ushers  in    a, 

210. 
Bores  and  bored,  the,  209. 
Borrower,  neither  a,  nor  a  lender 

be,  211. 
Borrowing  dulls  the  edge  of  h'js- 

bandry,  211. 
Boston,  solid  men  of,  212. 
Bound,  there  's  nothing  but  hath 

his,  214. 
Bounty,  large  was  his,  216. 

no  winter  in  't,  215. 
Bourn  no  traveller  returns,  777. 
Bowers,    lodged    in    thy    living, 

1952. 
Boys,  scrambling,  outfacing,  fash- 

ion-monging,  223. 
Braes,  we  twa  hae  run  about  the, 

222. 
Brains,  steal  away  their,  587. 
when  the,  were  out,  224. 
Branch,  cut  is  the,  213. 
Brave  deserves  the  fair,  226. 
how  sleep  the,  227. 
more,  to  live,  225. 
on,  ye,  359. 
Bravest  are  the  tenderest,  476. 
Breach,  once  more  unto  the,  22S 
Bread,  crammed  with  distressful 
1490. 
should  be  so  dear,  229. 
Breast,  calm  the  troubled,  231. 
Breath.    ?ood     man    vields    bis, 

232. 
Rreeohes  are  so  queer,  233. 
Breezes  of  the  South,  234. 


342 


IXDKX    TO    QUOTATIONS. 


Brevity  is  very  pood,  236. 

the  soul  of  wit,  2S^k 
Bride  in  her  bloom,  23S. 
Bridf;e  ofsi^'lis,  1993. 

tiiat  arched  the  Hood,  239. 
Brook,  a,  comes  stealing,  240. 
Brookside,   I   wandered  by  the, 

2041. 
Brother,   be  not   over-exquisite, 

90. 
Bubbles,  the  earth  hath,  243. 
Bucket,  old  oaken,  241. 
Bud  is  on  the  bough,  245. 
Bufrle,  blow,  240. 
Bully,  like  a  tall,  358. 
Buttercups,  the  children's  dower, 

251. 
Butterflv,  a  mere  court,  419. 

I  'd"be  a,  21S. 

Caesar,  dead  and  turned  to  clay, 
253. 
the  word  of,  253. 
Calamity,   thou  art   wedded   to, 

265. 
Caledonia,  stern  and  wild,  1052. 
Calendar,  accursed  in  the,  454. 
Caliban,  sweet  eyes  at,  407. 
Calumny  will  sear  Virtue,  257. 
Camel  to  thread  a  needle's  eye, 

550. 
Candle,  did  not  see  the,  867. 
hold  their  f-irlhing,  303. 
throws  his  beams,  259. 
Cannons  spit  torth  their  indigna- 
tion, 201. 
Canteen,   we    have   drunk   from 

the  same,  756. 
Captain,  boisterous,   of  the  sea, 
205. 
mv,  our  fearful  trip  is  done, 
'204. 
Caravanserai,  God's  greon,  258. 
Care  keei)s  his  watch,  2(;6. 
pursue:  its  victim,  208. 
that  is  entered  once,  207. 
to  our  coffin  adds  a  nail,  269. 
will  kill  a  cat,  270. 
Cat,  a  harmless,  nc-cfssar\',  272. 
care  will  kill  a,  270. 
will  mew,  278. 
Catalogue,  go  for  men  in  the,  575. 
Cataract  haunted  me,  274. 


Caterpillars    of     the     Common- 
wealth, 417. 
Cato,  give  his  senate  laws,  276. 
Cattle,  call  (lie,  home,  277. 
Cause,  little  shall  I  grace  my,  278. 
Caverns    measureless    to      man, 

2&>2. 
Censure  from  a  foe,  285. 
take  each  man's,  41. 
Ceremony  was  but  devised,  2S0. 
Cervantes  smiled  Spain's  chivalry 

away,  315. 
Chamber,  come  to  the  bridal,  493. 
Chance,  all,  direction,  289. 
dark  idolater  of,  1584. 
grasps  the  skirts  of,  833. 
l)ower  men  call,  288. 
Change,  fear  of,  perplexes  mon- 
archs,  Oo7. 
itself  can  give  no  more,  291. 
ringing  grooves  of,  292. 
Chaos,  black,  comes  again,  293. 
eldest  night  and,  80. 
of  thouglit  and  passion,  294. 
Character  in  tliy  life,  295. 
Charitv,   alas  for  the  rarity    of, 
298. 
fulfils  the  law,  297. 
Charm,  the,  by  sages  often  told, 

401. 
Charms  strike  the  sight,  299. 
Chastity,  saintly,  800. 
Chattertou,  the  marvellous  boy, 

801. 
Chaucer,  well  of  Knglish,  302. 
Cheek,  fed  on  her  damask,  374. 

o'er  her  warm,  193. 
Cherubim s,    still  quiring  to  the, 

1708. 
Chickens,  count  their,  805. 
Child,  a  thankless,  985. 

is  father  of  the  man,  809. 
Childhood,    the    scenes    of   mv, 

145:1 
Children   are   the  keys  of  Para- 
dise, 310. 
gathering  i)ebbles,  312. 
if  the,  were  no  more,  307. 
Chime,  faintly  as  tolls  the  even- 
ing, 314. 
Chivalry,  charge  with  all  thy,  142. 
Choice,  follow  thou  thy,  317. 
goes  by  forever,  514. 


INDEX    TO    QUOTATIONS. 


343 


Choler,  room  to  yonr  rash,  318. 
Christ,  ring  in  the,  172. 

the  one  great  word,  322. 

was  born  across  the  sea,  320. 

went  agin  war,  323. 
Christians  have  burnt  each  other, 

176. 
Christmas  comes  but  once  a  year, 
324. 

hearth,  holly  round  the,  325. 

keep  our,  merrv,  327. 

tide,  bright  be  thy,  326. 

't  was  the  night  before,  328. 
Church,  what  is  a,  330. 

who  builds  a,  329. 
Churchyards,  when,  yawn,  894. 
Circle  of  the  golden  j^ear,  151. 
Citadel,  a  towered,  334. 
Citizens,   before   man  made    us, 

335. 
City,  Cain,  the  first,  made,  786. 

'  one  who,  in,  pent,  336. 
Clay,  blind  his  soul  with.  338. 
Cleopatra,  since,  died,  145. 
CliflF,  as  some  tall,  341. 
Clime,  cold  m,  are  cold  in  blood. 

352. 
Climes  bevond  the  western  main, 

342." 
Cloake,  take  thine  old,  343. 
Clock  worn  out.  344. 
Cloud  that  's  dragonish,  1689. 
Clouds  are  angels'  robes,  343. 

heavy  with  storms,  346. 

hooded,  like  friars,  150. 

on  the  western  side,  347. 

trailing,  of  glory,  743. 
Clown,  thou  art  inated  with  a, 

953. 
Coach,  go  call  a,  349. 
Cock,  the  early  village,  350. 
Coincidence,  a  strange,  351. 
Cold,  't  is  bitter,  353. 
Coliseum,  while  stands  the,  354. 
Colossus,  like  a,  355. 
Columbia,  to  glory  arise,  357. 
Column,  where  London's,  358. 
Combat,  the,  deepens,  359. 
Comfort  comes  too  late,  361. 
Commandments,  set  my  ten,  362. 
Commentators  each  dark  passage 

shun,  363. 
Communion  with  the  skies,  365. 


Companions,  I  have  had,  Sll. 
Compass,  I  mind  my,  369. 
Complexion,  mislike  me  not  for 

ray,  372. 
Compulsion,    sweet,    in    music. 

373. 
Concealment,  like  a  worm,  874. 
Conceit  in  weakest  bodies  strong- 
est works,  375. 
liSs  in  his  hamstring,  27. 
what  are  they  in  their,  249. 
Conclusion,  a  foregone.  376. 
Condition  is  not  the  thing,  188. 
Conflict,  dire  was   the   noise  of, 

381. 
more  fierce  the,  grew,  147. 
through  the  heat  of,  256. 
Confusion  on  thy  banners  wait, 

382. 
worse  confounded,  383. 
Conquerors  that  war  against  your 

own  aftections,  1626. 
Conquest's  crimson  ^^'ing,  385. 
Conscience  does  make  cowards, 

386. 
into  what  abyss,  387. 
of  the  king,  1341. 
the,  rarely  gnaws,  388. 
Conscious  stone  to  beauty  grew, 

247. 
Consideration  like  an  angel  came, 

389. 
Consistencv  wuz  a  part  of  his 

plan,'391. 
Consolation,    grief    is    crowned 

with,  390. 
Conspiracies  no  sooner  should  be 

formed,  893. 
Constancy  lives  in  realms  above, 

395. 
Consummation    devoutly    to    be 

wished,  396. 
Consumption's  ghastly  form,  498. 
Contemplation  and  valor  formed, 

397. 
Contempt,  contemptible  to  shun, 

898. 
Content  can  soothe,  401. 

commends  me  to  mine  own, 

400. 
Contest,  great,  follows,  408. 
Convents  bosomed  deep  in  vines, 

2. 


344 


INDEX    TO    QUOTATIONS. 


Conversation,  in,  boldness  bears 
swav,  199. 
skill  of,  lies  in,  404. 
Copse,  ne^ir  yonder,  340. 
Corruiition  is  a  tree,  408. 
milling  ail  within,  528. 
shall  delupe  all,  409. 
Counsel,  bosom  up  my,  410. 
Countenance  will  change  to  vir- 
tue, 1357. 
Country,  God  made  the,  1937. 
left  our,   for   our    country's 

good,  413. 
my,  'tis  of  thee,  1315. 
the  undiscovered,  217. 
Court  melted  into  one  whisper, 

1580. 
Courtesv,  that  fine  sense  which 

inen  call,  420. 
Courtier,,  not  a,  hath  a  heart,  418. 
Coward,   call   him   a   slanderous, 
521. 
never  on  himself  relies,  428. 
Cowards,  common  men  are,  1513. 
conscience  does  make,  3S6 
die  many  times,  426. 
Cowslips  wan,  429. 
Coxcombs,  some  made,  430. 
vanquish  Berkeley,  431. 
Crack  of  doom,  577. 
Cradle  of  reposing  age,  432. 
Cradles  rock   us    nearer    to   the 

tomb,  179. 
Creation  sleeps,  434. 
Creatures,    millions  of  spiritual, 

1733 
Credit,  blest  paper,  435. 
Cricket,  thou  winter,  12. 
Critical,  I  am  nothing  if  not,  439. 
Critics  I  saw,  that  names  deface, 

440. 
Crocus,  the  yellow,  321. 
Cromwell,  damned  to  everlasting 
fame,  G71. 
our  chief  of  men,  441. 
Cross,  the,  leads  generations  on, 

442. 
Crown,  a  fruitless,  444. 
I  give  away  my,  3. 
likeness  of  a  kingly,  445. 
Crutch,  shoulders  his,  7o7. 
Cupid  is  a  casuist,  44s. 
is  painted  blind,  447, 


Cure  for  life's  ills,  449. 
Curfew  tolls  the  knell,  450. 
Curiosity,  that  low  vice,  451, 
("urls,  shakes  his  ambrosial,  452. 
Current,  take  the,  when  it  serves, 

45:3. 
('urs,  like  to  village,  bark,  1200. 
Cnrses,  mouth-honor,  breath,  455. 
Custom  calls  me  to  it,  458, 

that  monster,  459. 
Cut,  unkindest,  of  all,  1982. 
Cygnet  to  this   pale   faint  swan, 

754. 

DaflFadills,  we  weep  to  see,  401, 
Dagger,  is  this  a,  462. 

of  the  mind,  462. 
Daisy's  cheek  is  tipped,  463. 
Dame,  he  that  would  win  his,  423. 
Dames  of  ancient  days,  466. 
Damn  with  foint  praise,  ]3(',9. 
Damnation,  deal,  round  the  land, 

464, 
Damned   use  that  Avord  in  hell, 

139. 
Damsel,  a,  lay  deploring,  1608, 

with  a  dulcimer,  465, 
Dance,  on  with  the,  469. 

the  Pyrrhic,  470, 
Danger,  out  of  this  nettle,  472, 

shape  of,  473. 
Dante  of  the  dread  Inferno,  474, 
Dare  do  all  that  may  become  a 

man,  475. 
Darkness,  all  day  the,  532, 

bends  dowii  Uke  a  mother, 
477. 

the  instruments  of,  1885, 

universal,  buries  all,  478. 

visible,  no  light  but,  895. 
Darling  of  the  April  rain,  2009, 
Daughter  of  the  voice  of  God, 
593, 

still  harping  on  my,  480. 
Day,  at  the  close  of  the,  485. 

begins  to  break,  4s;3. 

each,  critique  on  the  last,  260. 

is  done,  632, 

it  is  a  sultrv,  1819. 

the  kingly,'l828. 
Days  are  in  the  yellow  leaf,  486. 
'  heavenly,    that    cannot    die, 
487, 


INDEX    TO    QUOTATIONS. 


345 


Days,  nor   mourn    the    unalter- 
able. 791. 
our,  begin  with  trouble,  500. 
thirty,  hath  September,  1'211. 
Death,  a  necessary  end,  4SS. 

a    strange,   delicious   amaze- 
ment, 49S. 
all   seasons   for   thine    own, 

496. 
came  with  friendly  care,  979. 
close  following,  492. 
Cometh  soon  or  late,  49.5. 
cruel,  is  always  near,  500. 
dread  of  something  after,  777. 
his,   calcined    thee    to  dust, 

602. 
how  wonderful  is,  502. 
in  itself  is  nothing,  504. 
is  beautiful,  50-3. 
lies  on  her,  490. 
loves  a  shining  mark,  494. 
lurks  in  every  flower,  501. 
only  kind  to  mortals,  497. 
rides  on  everv  passing  breeze, 

501. 
there  is  no,  499. 
thou  art  sweet,  778. 
though,  be  poor,  491. 
't  is,  to  me  to  be  at  enmity, 
617. 
Death's  untimely  frost,  773. 

voice  sounds  like  a  prophet's, 
904. 
Debts,  call  our  old,  in,  388. 
Decay's  effacing  fingers,  506. 
Deceit   should   steal  such  gentle 

shapes,  503. 
December,  came  the  chill,  510. 
Decency,  want  of,  512. 
Deed,  so  shines  a  good,  2.59. 
Deeds,  easy  to  beget  great.  516. 

excused  his  devilish,  515. 
Deep  where  Holland  hes,  517. 
Defence,  at  one  gate,  to  make, 

520. 
Delav    leads    impotent  beggarv, 

"  524.  ^       ■ 

Deliberation,   deep  on  his   front 

engraven,  .526. 
Denmark,  something  is  rotten  in, 

529. 
Deputy,     this     outward-sainted, 
955. 


Desert,  where  no  life  is  found, 

5.33. 
Desire,  bloom  of  young,  193. 
liveth  not  in  fierce,  535. 
Desjjair  defies    even   despotism, 
537. 
then  black,  538. 
Despotism,  despair  defies  even, 

537. 
Destiny,  shady  leaves  of,  541. 
Detractions,  they  that  hear  their, 

543. 
Devil,  abashed  the,  stood,  1. 
the,  builds  a  chapel,  8S4. 
can  cite  scripture,  1422. 
has  the  largest  congregation, 

3St. 
laughing,  in  his  sneer,  878. 
sends  cooks,  406. 
temptation  of  the,  1886. 
was  sick,  the,  546. 
Dew,  resolve  itself  into  a,  722. 
Dial,    true   as    the,   to  the    sun, 

549. 
Die,  we  must  all,  1231. 
Dies,    nothing,     but    something 

mourns,  1232. 
Digestion,  good,  wait  on  appetite, 

99. 
Diirression,  there  began  a  lang, 

552. 
Dinner,  much  depends  on,  553. 
Discontent,    the    winter   of  our, 

2061. 
Discord,  brayed  horrible,  381. 
effects  from  civil,  556. 
oft  in  music,  555. 
Discourse,  Avith  such  large,  557. 
Discretion,  not  to  outsport,  558. 

the  best  part  of  valor,  559. 
Diseases,  desperate  grown,  560. 
Disguise,  't  is  manly  to  disdain, 

561. 
Disobedience,  of  man's  first.  563. 
Disposition,  a  verv  melancholv, 

565. 
Dispute,  could  we  forbear,  63. 
Distance  lends  enchantment,  570. 
Diver  did  hang  a  salt-fish,  89. 
Divinitv   that   shapes   our   ends, 

573. 
Doctor  Fell,  I  do  not  love  thee, 
562. 


346 


INDEX    TO    QUOTATIONS. 


Dogr,  I  'd  rather  be  a,  237. 

will  have  his  day,  273. 
Dogs  of  war,  let  slip  the,  1499. 
Dolphins    play,    please«.l    to  see, 

369. 
Dome,  hand  that  rounded  Peter's, 

247. 
Dominion   over  palm   and   pine, 

744. 
Done,  if  it  were,  when  'tis,  25. 
Doubt,  modest,  is  called,  578. 
Doubts,  our,  are  traitors,  579. 
Doves,  the  moan  of,  ItiG. 
Drama's  laws,  the,  580. 
Dream,  a,  so  sweet,  554. 

fickle  as  a  chanfjcful,  702. 
Dreams  are  a  world,  20(). 

are  children  of  an  idle  brain, 
5S1. 

have  breath  and  tears,  582. 

glimpses  of  forgotten,  584. 

some, are  nothing  but  dreams, 
583. 

such  stutf  as,  are  made  on, 
1726. 
Dress,  be  plain  in,  585. 

drains  our  cellar  dry,  586. 

we  sacrifice  to,  5S6. 
Drink,  give  him  strong,  583. 
Drunkard,  some  frolic,  590. 
Dulcimer,  damsel  with  a,  465. 
Dunce,  a,  at  home,  591. 
Dun^'eon,  dweller  in  yon,  592. 
Duty,   if   that  name   thou   love, 
593. 

Eagle,  stretched  upon  the  plain, 

594. 
Eagle's  fate  and   mine  are  one, 

1657. 
Ear,  give  every  man  thine,  41. 
more  is    meant  than   meets 
the,  51>5. 
Earth  doth  like  a  snake  renew, 
596. 
felt  the  wound,  597.    . 
hath  bubbles,  24^3. 
is  a  thief,  1521. 
lie  lightly,  gentle,  593. 
with     her    thousand    voices, 
599. 
Ease,  I  '11  take  mine,  741. 
would  recant  vows,  600. 


East,  opening  chambers  of  the. 

1^27. 
Echo,  applaud  thee  to  the  very, 

101. 
fading  from  the  chime,  1252. 
waits  with  art,  605. 
Echoes   roll    from   soul   to   soul, 

606. 
set  the  wild,  flying,  246. 
Eclipse,  built  in  the,  456. 

total,  without  all  hope  of  dav, 

1S6. 
Eden,  through,  took  their  solitary 

way,  60S. 
Education    forms    the    common 

mind,  609. 
Eloquence,  mother  oi  arts  and, 

117. 
Elves,  the  criticising,  698. 
Embers,    glowing,    through    the 

room,  S02. 
Embroidery,  sad,  wears,  429. 
lunerson  first,  there  comes,  611. 
Enchantment,     distance     lends, 

570. 
Enemy  in  their  mouths,  587. 
England,   model    to    thy  inward 

greatness,  616. 
Ensign,  tear  her  tattered,  618. 
Enthusiasm,   a  moral  inebrietv, 

619. 
Envy  is  a  kind  of  prai.se,  610. 
will  pursue  merit,  621. 
withers  at  joy,  622. 
Err,  to,  is  human,  745. 
Error  and   mistake  are  infinite, 

405. 
shall,  father  truth,  626. 
wounded,  writhes  with  pain, 

627. 
Eternity,  thou  pleasing,  dreadful 

thought,  629. 
Europe,    better    fifty    years    of, 

630. 
Eve,  since,  ate  apples,  553. 
Events,  coming,  cast  their  shad- 
ows before,  1390. 
Evil,  be  thou  my  good,  634. 
springs  up,  635. 
that  men  do  lives,  636. 
Exercise,  the  sad  mechanic,  1293. 
E.xpectation     M)akes    a    blessing 

dear,  640. 


INDEX    TU    QUOTATIONS. 


347 


Experience      is      by      industry 
achieved,  641. 
long,  luiidf  hitri  sage,  642. 
Extremes  in   nature  equal  good 

produce,  648. 
Eve,  let  everv,   negotiate   for  it- 
self, 279. 
of  childhood  fears  a  painted 

devil,  545. 
the  black,  the  blue,  649. 
Eves  are  homes  of  silent  praver, 
W3. 
bright,  rain  influence,  9S2. 
half  defiant,  646. 
soft,  looked  love,  651. 
soul-deep,  647. 

sweetest,  were  ever  seen,  650. 
true,  too  pure,  645. 
were  made  for  seeing,  161. 
with  a  wondrous  charm,  646. 

Fabric,  like  an  exhalation,  652. 

like  the  baseless,  509. 
Face,    can't    I    another's,    com- 
mend, 655. 
false,  must  hide,  563. 
ne  hides  a  shining,  656. 
light  upon  her,  654. 
that    launched    a    thousand 

ships,  1070. 
this     man,    whose     homely, 
1101. 
Face,  the  old  familiar,  311. 
Fair,    exceeding,    she    was    not, 
658. 
is  foul,  and  foul  is,  657. 
Fairy  land,  this  is  the,  659. 
Faith,  amaranthine  flower  of.  602. 
for  modes  of,  6t>3. 
has  centre  everywhere,  661. 
if.  produce  no  works,  660. 
saddest  thing,  to  lose,  571. 
Faithless,  among  the,  faithful,  4. 
Fall,  he  that  is  down  needs  fear 

no,  664. 
False  as  air,  665. 
Falsehood,  strife  of  Truth  with, 

514. 
Fame,    damned    to    everlasting, 
671. 
is  double-mouthed,  667. 
morning  when  I  longed  for. 


Fame,  that  all  hunt  after,  666. 

what 's.  668. 
Fame's  eternall  beadroll,  302. 

eternal  camping-ground,  181. 

proud  temple  shines  afar,  670, 
Families  of  yesterday,  1300. 
Famine  is  in  thy  cheeks,  073. 
Fancv,  she  's  all  my,  painted  her, 

'675. 

where  is,  bred,  674. 
Farewell,  a  word  that  must  be, 
077. 

through  keen  delights,  676. 

to  thee,   Araby's    daughter, 
4S1. 
Farmers,   the  embattled,    stood, 

239. 
Fashion  wears  out  more  apparel, 

678. 
Fate,  binding  Nature  fast  in,  682. 

has  wove  the  thread  of  life, 
68:3. 

take  a  bond  of,  114. 

when,   summons,    monarchs 
obey,  6sO. 
Fates,  what,  impose,  679. 
Father  of  all,  in  every  age,  6S5. 

wise,  knows  his  own  child, 
684. 
Fathers,  God  of  our,  744. 
'.  ault,  condemn  the,  686. 
Faults,  chide  him  for,  306. 

in  vain,  my,  ye  quote,  688. 
Fear,  desponding,  693. 

is  most  accursed.  692. 

what  should  be  the,  691. 
Feasts,  blest  be  those,  695. 
February,  slant  sun  of,  697. 
Feelings,   some,  are    to    mortals 

given,  893. 
Feet  beneath  her  petticoat,  467. 

her,  like  snails,  699. 
Fellow,   touchy,   testy,  pleasant, 

700. 
Female  of  sex  it  seems.  701. 
Fiction,  by  fairy,  drest.  704. 

rises  to  the  eye.  703. 
Fields,  rejoice  ye,  121. 
Fiend,  a  frightful,  708. 
Fight  another  day,  710. 
Fire,  from  beds  of  raging.  Til. 
Firmament,  now  glowed  the,  712. 

spacious,  on  high,  713. 


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INDEX    TO    QUOTATIONS. 


Fish,  I  can,  and  study  too,  1457. 
Flag  of  the  free  heart's  hope,  714. 

the  meteor,  of  Knfrland,  715. 
Flame,  freedom's  holy,  71(). 

that  lit  the    battle's   wreck, 
717. 
Flatter,  1  cannot,  71'^. 
Flattery,   can,   soothe   the  ear  of 
death,  720. 

the  food  of  fools,  719. 
Flea  has  sm.aller  fleas,  721. 
Flesh,  this  too  solid.  722. 
Flif,'ht.  no  thou-jrht  of,  410. 
Flood,  leap  into  this  angry,  724. 

taken  at  the,  li)12. 
Flowers  preach  to  us,  726. 

that  skirt  the  frost,  72S. 

the  gentle  race  of,  725. 

they  talk  in,  727. 

wither  at    tlie    north-wind's 
breath,  496. 
Fly,  oh  could  I,  366. 
Foe,  the  erect,  the  manly,  729. 
Folks,    unhappy,    on   shore  now, 

1680. 
Folly,  if,  grow  romantic,  781. 

lovely  woman  stoops  to,  733. 
Fools  are  ray  theme,  734. 

ever  since  the  C  )nquest,  736. 

our  scorn  may  raise,  620. 

Paradise  of,  735. 

rush    in    where    angels  fear, 
737. 

to  talking  ever  prone,  730. 
Footprints  on  the  sands  of  time, 

738. 
Fop,  some  fiery,  590. 
Fops,  positive,  persisting,  260. 
Force,  who  overcomes  by,  740. 
Forest  primeval,  this  is  the,  742. 
Forget,  lest  we,  744. 
Forgetfulness,  not  in  entire,  743. 
Forgive,  good  to.  747. 

those  who,  most,  746. 
Forgiveness  to   the  injured  does 

belong,  1299. 
Form  of  life  and  light,  748. 
Forsaken,  when  he  is,  12S2. 
Fortitude  is     seen    in   great  ex- 

ploits,  749. 
Fortune,  forever,  wilt  thou  prove, 
7.52. 

is  female,  751. 


Fortune  keeps  an  upward  course 
2001. 
stings  and  arrows  of,  1959. 
will,  never  come,  7.50. 
Fortune's  power,  1  am  not  now 

in,  89. 
Frailty,  thy  name  is  Woman.  753. 
France,  'tis  blotter  using,  755. 
Freedom     from      her    mountain- 
height,  761. 
my  angol,  his  name  is,  759. 
sternly  said,  760. 
thou  art  not  a  girl,  758. 
Freedom's    battle,   once    begun, 

148. 
Freeman  whom  the  truth  makes 

free,  1965. 
Freemen,  corrupted,  the  worst  of 

slaves,  1724. 
Friend,  of  every  friendless  name 
the,  768. 
oh,  be  my,  765. 
save  uie  "from  the  candid,  729. 
to  thy,  be  true,  706. 
Friends  in  youth,  395. 

of  humblest,  scorn   not  one, 

769. 
remembering  my  good,  763. 
thou  hast,  and  their  adoption 

tried,  764. 
two,  two  bodies,  767. 
Friendships  of  the  world,  766. 
Front,  his  fair  large,  770. 
Frost  and  light,  work  of,  772. 
fell  death's  untimely,  773. 
the  panes  are  hung  with,  771. 
Fruit,  the  ripest,  first  lalls,  774. 
Funeral  baked  meats,  1907. 
I'urrows,  we  see  time's,  57. 
Fury  like  a  woman  scorned,  775. 

of  a  patient  man,  776. 
Future,  trust  no,  780. 

Gage,  there  I  throw  my,  287. 
Gain,  play  not  for,  784. 

unve.ved  with  cares  of,  781. 
Gait,  I  ken  the  manner  of  his,  1 13. 
Gale,  so  sinks  the,  7b2. 

thorn  that  scents  the  even- 
ing, 783. 
Garden,  God  the  first,  made,  786. 

where  tlowers  were  heajted, 
785. 


INDEX    TO    QUOTATIONS. 


349 


Garden,  where  the,  smiled,  340. 
Garret,  born  in  the,  7S7. 
Garrick,  here  lies  David.  7SS. 
Garth  did  not  write  his  own  Dis- 
pensary, VIS. 
Gem  of  purest  ray  serene.  7s9. 
Genius  commands  thee,  367. 
goes  and  Folly  stays,  791. 
must  be  born,  790." 
Gentleman,  who   was   then    the, 

79y. 
Gentlemen,  that  neither  envy  the 

great.  792. 
Gentleness  shall  force,  794. 
Ghost,  like  an  ill-used.  So. 

what  gentle,  54S. 
Ghosts  and  forms  of  fright,  796. 
Gifts  are  locked  up  in  my  heart, 
798. 
free  of,  that  cost  them  noth- 
ing, 799. 
Girdle  round  the  earth,  800. 
Girls  blush,  sometimes,  196. 
Gloamin,  late  in  a.  SOI. 
Gloom,  teach  lisht  to  counterfeit 

a,  802, 
Glory,  awake  to,  807. 

excess  of,  obscured,  804. 
from  defect  arise,  519. 
gilds  the  sacred  page,  17.5. 
go  where,  waits  thee,  80.\ 
greater,  dim  the  less,  367. 
guards  with   solemn   round, 

181. 
is  like  a  circle  in  water,  803. 
•     or  the  grave,  359. 

pursue,  and  generous  shame, 
716. 
Glow-worm    shows    the    matin, 

808. 
Gluttonv,  swinish,  ne'er  looks  to 

heaven,  809. 
Gnat,  who  's  sorry  for  a,  196. 
God,  all  but,  is  changing,  290. 
alone  was  seen  in  heaven,  813. 
an  atheist  half  believes  a,  115. 
conscious  water  saw  its,  814. 
erects  a  house  of  prayer,  3S4. 
from  thee,  great,  we  spring, 

815. 
is  the  perfect  poet,  1351. 
made  the  country,  412. 
of  our  fathers,  744. 


God,  onlv,  may  be  had  for  the  ask- 
ing, 810. 

the  Hfe  and  light,  812. 
Goddess  fair  and  free.  1192. 

she  moves  a,  1417. 
Gods   arrive  when  half-gods  go, 
SI  7. 

grow   angrv   with   your    pa- 
tience, 10"l6. 

the,  detest  my  baseness,  145. 

the,  are  just,  816. 
God's  love  seemed  lost,  531. 
Going,  the  order  of  your,  824. 
Gold,  all  that  gHsters  is  not,  97. 

can  love  be  bought  with,  2037. 

crying  is  a  cry  for,  820. 

cursed  lust  of,  819. 

narrowing  lust  of,  172. 

poison  to  men's  souls,  818. 

the  lust  of.  132. 

to  gild  refined,  638. 
Golden  Rod,  autumn  blaze  of,  130. 
Good  he  scorned  stalked  otf,  S5. 

is   oft    interred     with     their 
bones,  636. 

night,  at  once,  824. 

night,  till  it  be  morrow,  825. 

night,  to  each  a  fair,  826. 

the,  die  first,  822. 
Goodness  and  he  fill  up  one  monu- 
ment, 821. 
Government,  for  forms  of.  829. 

makes  them  seem  divine,  827. 
Gowans  fine,  pu'd  the,  222. 
Grace   bevond   the  reach  of  art, 
S3i: 

sweet  attractive,  397. 

was  in  all  her  steps,  551. 

we  have  forgot,  830. 
Grandeur  with  a  disdainful  smile, 

832. 
Grandsire,  skilled  in  gestic  lore, 

466. 
Gratitude  of  men,  834. 

still  small  voice  of,  833. 
Grave,  companions  in  the,  835. 

hungry  as  the.  951. 

men    shiver     when    thou  'rt 
named,  836. 

sun  shine  sweetly  on  my,  837. 

under  the  deep  sea,  533. 
Graves,  find   ourselves  dishonor- 
able, 355. 


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Great,  rightly  to  be,  839. 

some  are  born,  838. 
Greatness,  highest  point  of  all  my, 

838. 
Greece,  but  living,  no  more,  842. 

glory  that  was,  ir>;51. 

sad  relic  of  dei>arted  worth, 
841. 

the  isles  of,  843. 
Greeks  joined  Greeks,  844. 
Grief,  forestall  his  date  of,  847. 

is  crowned  with  consolation, 
390. 

my,  lies  onward,  845. 

silent  manliness  of,  849. 

the  holy  name  of,  848. 

what  3  gone  should  be  past, 
84(5. 
Ground,  haunted,  holy,  850. 
Groves,  fre(|uenting  sacred,  8.52. 

were   God's    first     temples, 
1951. 
Grudge,  feed  fat  the  ancient,  853. 
Gudgeons,  to  swallow,  805, 
Guest,  welcome  the  coming,  8.55. 
Guests,  unbidden,  8.54. 
Guilt,  full  of  artless  .jealousy,  856. 

once  harbored,  857. 

Habit,  costly  thy,  94. 
Habits,  ill,  gather  by  unseen  de- 
grees, 858. 
small,  well  pursued,  859. 
Hags,  midnight,  call  fiends,  2077. 
Hair,    beauty   draws    us    with   a 
single,  162. 
draws  you  with  a  single,  860. 
from  his  horrid,  360. 
golden,  like  sunUght,  861. 
streamed  like  a  meteor,  863. 
when  you  see  fair,  802. 
would  rouse  and  stir,  938. 
Hairs,  his  silver,  52. 
Halter,  felt  the,  draw,  864. 
Hand  in  hand  with  you,  865. 
that  rounded  Peter's  dome, 

247. 
white,  delicate,  dimpled,  866. 
Hands,  now  join  your,  567. 

that  the  rod  of  empire  might 
have  swayed,  613. 
Hanging    and    wiving    goes    by 
destiny,  1157. 


Hangman  of  creation,  592. 
Happiness    depends,    as    nature 
shows,  868. 
our  beings  end  and  aim,  869. 
that  luakes  the  heart  afraid, 
867. 
Harm,  to  win  us  to  our,  1885. 
Harmony,  from  heavenly,  871. 

touches  of  sweet,  870. 
Harp  of  thousand  strings,  1972. 

through  Tara's  halls,  872. 
Haste,  let  your,  commend  your 
duty,  873. 
more,  worst  speed,  874. 
Hat,  broad-brimmed,  875. 

the  old  three-cornered,  233. 
Hate  me  with  your  hearts,  876. 

wounds  of  deadly,  877. 
Hazards,  great  things  are  achieved 

through,  19. 
Head,  here  rests  his,  624. 
oh  good  gray,  881. 
the  wise,  the  reverend,  882. 
Health,  better  to  hunt  in   fields 
for,  884. 
with,  all  pleasure  Hies,  883. 
Heart  bowed    down    by    weight 
of  woe,  888. 
incessant  battery  to  her,  421. 
may  give  a  lesson,  889. 
merry,  goes  all  the  day,  885. 
rise,  thy  Lord  is  risen,  002. 
she  wants  a,  886. 
we  cannot  heal  the  throbbing, 
379. 
Hearts,  great,  have  largest  room 

to  bless,  84<.». 
Heathen  Chinee  is  peculiar,  433. 
Heaven  doth  with  us  as  we  with 
torches,  2010. 
hath  a  hand  in  these  events, 

14S6. 
is  above  all  vet,  891. 
is  as  the  book  of  God,  892. 
sends  us  good  meat,  406. 
Hecuba,  what 's,  to  him,  977. 
Heir,  creation's,  901. 

of  all  the  ages,  900. 
Hell,  better  to  reign  in,  576. 

breathes  out  contagion,  894. 
fear  of,  a  hangman's  whi[),  694. 
grew   darker  at  their  frown, 
896. 


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Hell  is  a  citv  much  like  London, 
899. 
itself  should  gape,  542. 
merit     heaven     by     making 

earth  a,  898. 
never  mentions,  to  ears   po- 
lite, 897. 
Heralds    high    before    him   run, 

448. 
Hero  in  our  eyes,  903. 

when  his  sword,  904. 
Heroes  are  much  the  same,  902. 

as  great  have  died,  9U5. 
Hesperus  rode  brightest,  1215. 
High  as  we  have  mounted,  52a. 
Highland  Mary,  spare  his,  1355. 
Hill,  mine  be  the  breezy,  837. 
Hills  of  the  stormy  North,  907. 

rock-ribbed  and  ancient,  906. 
History  hath  but  one  page,  908. 
Holidav,   butchered    to    make  a 

Koman,  910. 
Holidays,  if  all  the  year  were,  909. 
Holly  round  the  Christmas  hearth, 

325. 
Homage,  no  worthless  pomp  of, 

912. 
Home  is  the  resort  of  love,  913. 
is  the  sailor,  915. 
kindred     points    of    heaven 

and,  917. 
no  place  like,  91G. 
Homer,  deep-browed,  919. 

seven  cities  warred  for,  920. 
will   be   all    the    books    you 
need,  918. 
Homes,  forced  from  their,  639. 
Honest     man  's       the      noblest 

work  of  God,  922. 
Honey,  surfeited  with,  1572. 
Honey-bees,  so  work  the,  105. 
Honor  and  shame  from  no  condi- 
tion rise,  926. 
comes,  a  pilgrim  gray,  928. 
rooted  in  dishonor,  927. 
sinks  where  commerce   long 

prevails,  364. 
too  much,  a  burthen,  923. 
travels  in  a  strait  so  narrow, 
924. 
Honor  's  a  fine  imaginary  notion, 
925. 
at  the  stake,  839. 


Hood,  a  page  of,  929. 
Hope  abandon,  ye  who  enter  in, 
936. 
farewell,  and   farewell,    fear, 

634. 
tlies    with   swallows'    wings, 

930. 
heavenly,  is  all  serene,  934. 
in   thy   sweet  garden   grow, 

933. 
never  comes   that  comes  to 

all,  9:35. 
springs  eternal,  932. 
withering  tied,  87S. 
Hope's  tender  blossoms,  194. 
Horn,  Triton  blow  his  wreathed, 

937. 
Horrors,  on  horror's  head,  939. 

supped  full  with.  938. 
Horse,  my  kingdom  for  a,  940. 

one,  was  blind,  1676. 
Hospitality,  doing  deeds  of,  332. 
Host,  leader,  mingling  with   the 
vulgar,  943. 
such  a  numerous,  518. 
Hounds,  they  rouse  from  sleep, 

952. 
Hour,  catch  the  transient,  945. 
for  one  short,  to  see  the  souls, 

779. 
this  pernicious,  454. 
too  busy  with  the  crowded, 

944. 
when  lover's  vows,  2018. 
Hours,  lovers'  absent,  6. 
House,  a  naked,  183. 

there  's  nae  luck  about   the, 
946. 
Humanity,  O  suffering,  sad,  948. 

still,  "sad  music  of^  947. 
Hunger  best,  who  bears,  615. 
Huntsman,  the  healthy,  952. 
Husband,   advices   frae   the  wiff 
despises,  954. 
as  the,  is,  the  wife  is,  953. 
Hypocrisy,  evil  that  walks  invisi- 
ble," 956. 
Hypocrite     had    left    his    mark, 
957. 

Ice  in  June.  511. 

motionless  as,  958. 
Idea,  teach  the  young,  959.  « 


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INDEX    TO    QUOTATIONS. 


Ignorance,    from,    our    comfort 
Hows,  962. 

is  the  curse  of  God,  9fi1. 
Ilium,  topless  towers  of.  IdTO. 
Ills,  cure  for  life's  worst,  44lt. 

the  scholar's  lite  assail,  965. 
Illusion  is  brief,  1477. 
Image,  a  lasting,    of   the  mind, 

i:lv2. 
Imagination  all  compact,  966. 

appear  so  fair  to,  yOS. 

is  the  air  of  mind,  967. 
Immortality,  thoughts  boru  for, 
970. 

this  longing  after.  969. 
Impossible,  what 's,  can't  be,  971. 
Impudence,  he  that  has  but.  972. 
Independence,  let,  be  our  boast, 
976. 

thy  spirit,  let  me  share,  975. 
Infidel,  a  daring,  USO. 
Ingratitude,  I  hate,  933. 

thou    marble-hearted    fiend, 
9S4. 
Inhumanity,  man's,  to  man,  9S6. 
Inn,  every  house  was  an,  942. 

warmest  welcome  at  an,  9S7. 
Innocence,    glides    in     modest, 
away,  9S9. 

silence  of  pure,  9S8. 
Instinct  and  reason,  how  divide, 

990. 
Invention,  the,  all  admired,  991. 
Iron,  man  that  meddles  with  cold, 

992. 
Isle  In  far-otf  seas,  993. 
Isles  that  o'erlace  the  sea,  994. 
Italia,  who  has  fatal  beautv,  995. 
Italy,  my  Italy.  996. 
Ivy  green,  a  dainty  plant,  997. 

January,  then  came  old,  998. 
Jealousy,   beware,  my    lord,   of, 
999. 

no  true  love  without.  1000. 

the  injured  lover's  hell,  1001. 
Jest,  a  scornful,  1(X»3. 
Jest's,  a,  prosi)erity  lies  in  the, 

1002. 
Jewel  in  an  Ethiope's  ear,  1004. 
John  Anderson,  my  jo,  1109. 

some  said,"  print  "it,  13S;^>. 
■Joke  to  cure  the  dumps,  1005. 


Jove  laughs  at  lovers'  perjuries. 
1:327. 

lifts  the  golden  balances,  136. 
Joy,  capacity  for,  1im»6. 

is  the  mainspring.  1007. 
Joys,  how  fading  are  the,  95. 

too  e.\-<iuisite  to  last,  lOOS. 
.ludas  kissed  his  master,  1946. 
Judges  soon  the   sentence   sign, 

950. 
Judgment,  a  Daniel  come  to,  1009. 

reserve  thy,  41. 

thou  art  fled  to  brutish  beasts, 
1010. 

where  men  of,  creep,  14^^7. 
July,  boiling  like  to  fire,  1011. 
June,  what  so  rare  as  a  dav  in, 

1012. 
Juries  give  their  verdict,  1014. 
Jury  passing  on    the   prisoner's 

life,  1013. 
Just,  actions  of  the,  23. 
Justice,  finally,  triumphs,  1017. 

in  fair  round  belly,  1015. 

will  o'ertake  the  crime,  1234. 

Keys,  two  massy,  he  bore,  lOlS. 
Kin,  a  little  more  than,  1019. 

makes  the  whole  world,  1020. 
Kindness  shall  win  my  love,  1021. 

unremembered  acts  of,  1022. 
Kings  and  mightiest  potentates, 
4S9. 

are  like  stars,  1024. 

may  be  blest,  964. 

showers    on     her,     barbaric 
pearl,  1025. 

what  have,   save  ceremony, 
1023. 

wretched  state  of,  1539. 
Kiss,  I,  your  eyes,  1030. 

me,  and  be  quiet,  585, 

one,  and  then  another,  1031. 
Kisses,  plucked  up,  by  the  roots, 
1026. 

remembered  after  death,  1032. 

sweetness  shed  by,  1029. 
Kissing,  for,   not  for  contempt, 

1027. 
Kitchen,  in  the,  bred,  7S7. 
Knave,  he  's  an  arrant,  1033. 
Knaves,  whip  me  such   honest, 


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Knell,  by  fairy  hands  is   rung, 

1035. 
ne'er  sighed  at  the  sound  of  a, 

1036. 
Knowledge,  be  innocent  of  the, 

1614. 
by  suffering  entereth,  1039. 
comes,  but   wisdom   lingers, 

1040. 
is  as  food,  1037. 
is  ourselves  to  know,  1033. 
to  their  eves  her  ample  page, 

1041. 
true,  leads  to  love,  1042, 

Labor  for  his  daily  bread,  1046. 
is  prayer,  1044. 
joy  that  springs  from,  1045. 
swan   with  bootless,    swim, 

1043. 
to,  is  the  lot  of  man,  1047. 
Ladies,    like    variegated    tulips, 
104S. 
sigh  no  more.  973. 
Lady,  accept  the  gift,  1751. 
Lake,  on  thy  fair  bosom,  silver, 

1049. 
Lamentation,  its  lonesome   and 

low,  536. 
Land,  my  own,  ray  native,  1051. 

of  brown  heath,  1051. 
Landscape  tire  the  view,  1053. 
Language,  fit,  there  is  none,  1(J54. 

quaint  and  olden.  iao5. 
Lark,    the   herald  of   the  morn, 
1056. 
the,  left  his  nest,  1057. 
Larks,  the  early,  l!?27. 
Lass,  a  penniless.  lU-'^S. 
Latin,  that  soft  bastard,  1059. 
Laughter,  holding  his  sides,  1060. 

shakes  the  skies,  1061. 
Law,  in,   what  plea  so  tainted, 
106-2. 
sovereign,  sits  empress,  1064. 
Laws  grind  the  poor,  1063. 
Leaf  is  on  the  tree,  245. 

the  sere,  the  yellow,  1065. 
Learning  enlightens   to    corrupt 
the  mind,  1069. 
mourning  for   the  death  of, 

106S. 
oa  scraps  of,  dote,  1070. 


Leaves  have  their  times  to  fall,  496. 

like,  on  trees,  1067. 

shady,  of  destiny,  541. 
Letters,  all  dead  paper,  1073. 

Cadmus  gave.  1075. 

that  betray  the   heart's  his- 
tory, 1074. 
Libertv,  1  must  have,  1076. 

like  day,  breaks,  1079. 

mountain     nymph,      sweet, 
lOSl. 

when,  is  gone,  1078. 
Liberty's,  in,  defence,  1077. 

in  every  blow,  lOSO, 
Lie,  an  odious,  damned,  10S2. 

nothing  can  need  a,  10S3. 
Life  a  curse  and  not  a  blessing, 
i0S6. 

bv  his,  alone,  637. 

high,  108. 

hovers  like  a  star,  1087. 

is  but  a  span,  6<J0. 

is  not  to  be  bought,  1092. 

is    scarce    the   twinkle  of  a 
star.  loss. 

is  so  drearv.  536. 

is  the  gift  "of  God.  1089. 

nor  love  thy.  nor  hate,  1085. 

pure  in  its  purpose,  931. 

sacrexi  burden  is  this,  243- 

so  careless  of  the  single,  1093. 

twentv  vears  of,  1S16. 

what  IS,"  1090. 

whoso  lives  the  holiest,  911. 
Life  's  a  short  summer,  945. 

a  vast  sea,  1091. 

but  a  means.  614. 

but  a  walking  shadow,  1084. 
Light,  a  dim  relieious,  275. 

offspring  of  Heaven,  1094. 

that  led  astray,  1095. 

that  never  was,  1096. 

the  prime  work  of  God,  137. 

to  break  and  melt  in  sunder, 
lll*.^7. 
Lightning,  brief  as  the,  1098. 
Lightnings,  the  rending,  1SS3. 
Likeness,  long  shall  we  seek  his, 

1663. 
Lilacs,  April  brings  again,  105. 
Lilies,  in  the  beautv  of  the,  320. 

in  twisted  braids  of,  1100. 
Lily,  mistress  of  the  field,  1 099, 


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INDEX    TO    QUOTATIONS. 


Line,  cadence  of  a  ragged,  252. 
Marlowe's  inif^hty,  1102. 
marred  the  lofty,  1103. 
will  tlie,  stretch,  577. 
Lion,  wounds  the  etirth,  1104. 
Lions,  talks  familiarly  of,  197. 
Lips,  her,  are  roses  washed  with 
dew,  1105. 
when  mv,  meet  thine,  1023. 
Little,  contented  with,  HOG. 

man  wants  but,  1107. 
Lives  of  great  men,  1'4S. 
Loan,  a,  oft  loses  a  friend,  1071. 
Locks,    never    shake    thy    gorv, 

1103. 
Lodg^e  in  some  vast  wilderness, 

2049. 
Logic,  in,  a  great  critic,  1110. 
London,  the  villain's  home,  1111. 
Longings,  immortal,  in  me.  1112. 
Looks,    talked    with,    profound, 
1114. 
woman's,    my    only    books, 
1113. 
Lord  of  himself,  that  heritage  of 
woe,  1115. 
of   himself,    though    not    of 
lands,  1116. 
Loss  is  common,  1117. 
Love  and  tears  for  the  Blue,  ls7S. 
hail,  wedded,  1160. 
has  an  eye  for  a  dinner,  1135. 
him,  why  did  she,  1131. 
how  could  I  tell  I   should, 

1121. 
in  a  hut  is  ashes,  1130. 
includes     heart    and    mind, 

1127. 
is  a  spirit  of  fire,  1119. 
is  at  home  on  a  carpet,  1135. 
is  nature's  treasure,  1136. 
is  the  only  good,  1123. 
let  those,    who  never  loved 

before,  1125. 
looks  not  with  the  eyes,  447. 
man's,  is  a  thing  apart,  1133. 
mutual,  brings  delight,  1124. 
no  partnership  allows,  1126. 
O  last.  O  first.  9. 
purple  light  of,  193. 
rules  the  court,  1134. 
seldom    haunts    the    breast 
where,  1995. 


Love,  she  never  told  her,  874. 
taught  him  shame,  337. 
this  spring  of,  1118. 
tO()k  ui>  the  harp  of  Life,  819. 
tunes   the    shepherd's    reed, 

1134. 
what,  can  do,  1122. 
when  he  draws  his  bow,  423. 
Loved  and  lost,  better  to  have, 
1128. 
80    kindly,    had    we    never, 
1129. 
Loveliness  needs  not  ornament, 
36. 
when     unadorned,     adorned 
the  most,  36. 
Lover  rooted  stays,  191. 
Loving  are  the  daring,  476. 

no  pleasure  like  the  pain  of, 
1 132. 
Luxury,  cursed  by  heaven,  1137. 
it  was  a,  to  be,  1138. 

Mad,  I  am  not,  1139. 

Madding  crowd's  ignoble  strife, 

44:3. 
Madmen,  the  worst  of,  1558. 
Madness,  moody,  laughing  wild, 
1141. 

must  not  unwatchedgo,  1140. 
Madrigals,  birds  sing,  1513. 
Mahomet,  moon  of,  442. 
Maid,  be  good,  sweet,  823. 
Maker,  our,  bids  increase,  234. 
Malice,  nor  set  down  aught  in, 

96. 
Man,  what,  dare,  I  dare,  414. 

dare  do  all  that  may  become 
a,  415. 

dwells  apart,  1760. 

foremost,  of  this  world,  23'. 

good,  never  dies,  232. 

groan,  hear  a  good,  370. 
Man  's  a  man  for  a'  that,  1147. 

is  a  summer's  day,  1143. 

is  one  world,  1145. 

is  the  nobler  grosvth,  1717. 

let  each,  do  his  best,  5. 

made  the  town,  412. 

O  good  old,  91. 

O  that  a  mighty,  425. 

proper  study  of  mankind  is 
1146. 


INDEX    TO    QUOTATIONS. 


355 


Man,  take  him  for  all  in  all,  1143. 
that    lays  his  hand   upon  a 

woman,  421. 
the  eternal  epic  of  the,  1149. 
this  was  a,  1144. 
to  all  the  country  dear,  340. 
what  is,  1150. 
what  may,  -within  him  hide, 

1142. 
while,  is  gro%\ing,  179. 
Manhood,  when  verging  into  age, 

53. 
Mankind,  he  who  surpasses  or 

subdues,  612. 
Manna,  his  tongue  dropt,  610. 
Manners    ne'er    were    preached, 
1151. 
with  fortunes.  1152. 
Mansions,  build  thee  more  state- 
ly, 1307. 
Marble!  in  water  writ,  but  this  in, 
1154. 
of  her  snowy  breast,  230. 
sleep  in  dull  cold,  1153. 
March  is  come  at  last,  1155. 

we    know    thou     art    kind- 
hearted,  1156. 
Marlowe's  mighty  line,  1102. 
Marriage  is    a    matter    of  more 
worth.  115S. 
is  the  hfe-lon?  miracle,  1161. 
the  joys  of,  1159. 
Martyr  inhis  shirt  of  fire,  1163. 
Martyrs,  life  has  its,  1162. 
Master  is  of  churUsh  disposition, 

332. 
Masters,  men  are,  of  their  fates, 
1165. 
we  cannot  all  be,  1164. 
Match,  sun  ne'er  saw  her,  1326. 
Matter,  Berkeley  said  there  was 

no,  1166. 
Maxim,  old,  in  the  schools,  719. 
Mav,  leads  with  her  the  flowery, 
1169. 
the  new-born,  1163. 
the    voice    is    thine,    sweet, 
1167. 
Meals,  unquiet,   make  ill  diges- 
tions, 603. 
Means,  I  "11  husband  them,  271. 
Meat,  some  hae,  and  canna  eat, 
604. 


Meeting,  at  the  hour  of,  1171. 
Melancholy  marked  him  for  her 
own,  624. 
there  's  such  a  charm  In,  1172. 
these  pleasures,  give,  1173. 
what  charm  can  soothe  her, 
7*3. 
Melodies  unheard  before,  1175. 
Memory,  dear  to,  though  lost  to 
sight,  117S. 
eves  of,  will  not  sleep,  1177. 
from  the  table  of,  1176. 
pluck  from,  a  rooted  sorrow, 
392. 
Men  are  children  of  larger  growth, 
1179. 
I  pity  bashful,  146. 
may  jest  with  saints,  1S2. 
that  stumble  at  the  thresh- 
old, 2027. 
were  deceivers  ever,  973. 
wise,  ne'er  wail  their  loss,  26. 
Men's  evil  manners  live  in  brass, 

2011. 
Mercie,  who  will  not,  show,  11  SI. 
Mercy,  quality  of,  is  not  strained, 

IISO. 
Merit  true,  to  befriend,  11S2. 

wins  the  soul,  299. 
Messenger,  man\'-colored,  1430. 
Meteor  flag  of  England,  715. 
Midnight  brought  on  the  dusky 
hour,  11>4. 
iron  tongue  of,  11S3. 
'tis,  11S5. 
Milk,  sweet,  of  concord,  377. 
Mflton,  that  mighty  orb  of  song, 

11S6. 
Mind, body  filled  and  vacant,  1490. 
grand"  prerogative  of,  11S9. 
is  its  own  place,  11S7. 
leafless  desert  of  the,  534. 
minister  to  a,  diseased,  392. 
to  me  a  kingdom  is,  1190. 
Mind's    height,    measure    your, 

IISS. 
Minstrel  raptures  sweU,  for  him 

no.  14:36. 
Miracle,  love-at-first-sight,  540. 
Mirth  and  fun  grew  fast,  1193. 
can  into  folly  glide,  732. 
heart-easing,  1192. 
you  have  displaced  the.  564. 


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INDEX    TO    QUOTATIONS. 


Mischief,  thou  art  swift,  1194. 

to,  mortals  bend,  1195. 

Misery    had    worn    hiui    to    the 

"bones,  1196. 

he  f^ave  to,  all  he  had,  216. 

sacred  even  to  gods,  1197. 

Misfortune  made  the  throne  her 

seat,  1199. 
Mists,  season  of,  1'27. 
Mockery,  unreal,  hence,  1202. 
Modesty,    grace    and    blush    of, 
1204. 
looks  replete  with,  1203. 
Monarch,  a  morsel  for  a,  1205. 
Monarchs,  fate  of  mighty,  1206. 
Money,  get,   no  matter  by  what 
'means,  1210. 
if  thou  wilt  lend  this,  1072. 
rolled  in,  Hke  pigs,  1203. 
the  only  power,  1209. 
Monuments  of  princes,  1212. 
Mood,  a  sunny,  304. 

fantastic      as     a     woman's, 
1214. 
Moon  is  an  arrant  thief,  1521. 
had  climbed  the  highest  hill, 

1217. 
how  like  a  queen,  1216. 
is  carried  otf  in  purple  fire, 

1222. 
of  Mahomet,  442. 
unveiled  her  peerless  light, 

1215. 
when  the,  shone,  367. 
where    sighs    are  deposited, 
1686. 
Moonlight,  meet  me  by,  1356. 
Moor,  a  naked,  1S3. 
Morality,      unawares,      expires, 

1218. 
Morn,   sweet    is    the  breath   of, 

1220. 
Morning,  in  the,  thou  shalt  hear, 
1223. 
opes  her  golden  gates,  1219. 
steals  upon  night,  4s2. 
Morning-star  of  memory,  743. 
Mortalit3'"s  strong  hand",  122"). 
Mother  is  a  mother  still,  1227. 
Mother's  heart  is  weak,  1220. 
Motions,  a  third  interprets,  544. 
Mount,  I  know  a,  1223. 

I,  toward  the  sky,  1230. 


Mountain  tops,  he  who  ascends 

to,  612. 
Mountains,  circling  the,  346. 
high,  are  a  feeling,  122'.t. 
Mountebanks,  cheating,  1411. 
.Mourner,  the  only  constant,  460. 
.Mouth  that  si)its  forth  death,  197. 
Murder    may    pass    unpunished, 
1234. 
most  foul,  1233. 
one,  made  a  villain,  438. 
Music     has     charms    to   soothe, 
1237. 
heavenly  maid,  1239. 
in   them,  die  with  all  their, 

1241. 
man  that  hath  no,  1235. 
slumbers  in  the  shell,  1240. 
sweet  compulsion  in,  373. 
the  fiercest  grief  can  charm, 
1233. 
Music's  golden  tongue,  1236. 

Nails,    come    ne.ar    your  beauty 

with  my,  362.  " 
Naked,  the,  "every  day  he  clad, 

345. 
Name,  take  not  his,  1842. 

the  magic  of  a,  1243. 

what 's  in  a,  1242. 
Nation,  one,  evermore,  1314. 
Nations,  fierce  contending,  556. 
Nature,  accuse  not,  IS. 

Art  is  the  child  of.  110. 

ever  yields  reward,  1244. 

gave  signs  of  woe,  597. 

how  fair  is  thy  face,  1245. 

is  but  art,  289. 

made  a  pause,  434. 

made  us  men,  335. 

speaks    a  various  language, 

1246. 

Nature's  heart  beats  strong,  890. 

Necessity,  the  tyrant's  plea,  515. 

Neptune,   he   would   not  flatter, 

1707. 
Nettle,  out  of  this,  danger,  472. 
News,    bringer    of    unwelcome, 
1247. 

evil,  rides  post,  1248. 
Newton,  let,  be,  12.50. 
Night,  ancestral  mystery,  1256. 

darkens  the  streets,  170. 


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357 


Night  is  the  time  to  weep,  1258. 
shadow  of  a  starless,  538. 
that  from  the  eye  takes,  1254. 
upon  the  palms,  1257. 
wanes,  1221. 
•witching-  time  of,  894. 
with  her  sullen  ^^^ng,  1255. 
Nightingale,  if  she  should  sing  by 
day,  1259. 
that  on   yon   bloomy  spray, 
1260. 
Noble  by  birth,  1261. 

who  is  honest  is,  1262. 
Noon,   dark  amid   the   blaze   of, 

186. 
Noontide  wakes  the  buttercups, 

251. 
North,  ask  where  's  the,  1263. 
November,  he  full  gross  and  fat, 

1264. 
November's  rain  descends,  1265. 
Numbers,  I  lisped  in,  1266. 
Nun,  quiet  as  a,  34. 

Oak,  I  will  rend  an,  19 

who  hath  ruled  in  the  green- 
wood, 1268. 
Oaks,     charmed    by    the    stars, 

1267. 
Oar,  soft  moves  the  dipping,  198. 
Oars,  our,  keep  time,  314. 

were  silver,  1269. 
Oaths  that  make  the  truth,  1270. 
were  not  purposed  to,  1271. 
Obedience     is     the     Christian's 

crown,  1273. 
Obey,  let  them,  1272. 
Observation,  doth  not  smack  of, 

1274. 
Observations     which     ourselves 

make,  1623. 
Ocean  leans  against  the  land,  517. 
stretched  in  light,  1276. 
sunless  retreats  of  the,  547. 
thou    deep   and   dark    blue, 

1275. 
wave,  a  life  on  the,  2038. 
October,  calm  sunshine  of,  1277. 
October's  foliage  yellows,  1278. 
Odds,  I  would  allow  him,  521. 
Odors,  when  sweet  violets  sicken, 

200S. 
Odyssey,  Iliad  and  the,  143. 


Offence,  detest  the,  1280. 

should    bear    his    comment, 

1279. 
Oil,  incomparable.  Macassar,  368. 
Old  age  conies  on  apace,  60. 
age  serene  and  bright,  61. 
as  I  am,  158. 
though  I  look,  1281. 
Ones,  how  many  great,  125. 
Ophiuchus  huge,  360. 
Opinion,  of  his  own,  still,  1284. 
Opinion  's  but  a  fool,  1233. 
Opportunity,  thy  guilt  is  great, 

12S5. 
Oracle,  I  am  Sir,  1286. 
Orations,  make  no  long,  212. 
Orators,   to   the  famous,   repair, 

1287. 
Order  in  variety  we  see,  64. 

is  heaven's  first  law,  1288. 
Ornament  is  but  the  guiled  shore, 

1289. 
Orthodox,    prove  their  doctrine, 

574. 
Owe,  vou  sav,  you  nothing,  505. 
Owl,  the  fatal  bellman,  1290. 
Oyster,  the  world  's  mine,  2106. 

Page,    glory    gilds    the    sacred, 

175. 
Pageant,     insubstantial,     faded, 

569. 
Pageants,  they  are  black  vesper's, 

16S9. 
Pain  is  no  longer  pain,  1292. 

pays  the  income,  1291. 
Painter,  when  some  great,  1294. 
Pair,   kindest  and   the   happiest, 

739. 
Palm,  like  some  tall,  1295. 
Palpable  and  familiar,  484. 
Pan  is  dead.  1296. 
Pang  preceding  death,  1297. 
Pangs,  the  keenest,  the  wretched 

find,  534. 
Paradise,    how    grows    in,    our 

store,  1298. 
of  Fools.  735. 
Pardon,  a,  after  execution,  361. 
Parting   is   such    sweet   sorrow, 

825. 
the  pain  of,  1302. 
Partings  break  the  heart,  1308. 


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INDEX    TO    QUOTATIONS. 


Passion  leads  or  prudence  points 
the  way,  1403. 
places  which,  loves,  1304. 
the  power  of  that  sweet,  11 20. 
Passions    are   likened    to   floods, 
1305. 
may  I  govern  my,  1624. 
oft,  to  hear  her  shell,  1239. 
various  rulin-^,  154^3. 
Past,  let  the  dead,  bury  its  dead, 
780. 
over  the  trackless,  13()6. 
Patience  is  a  plant,  1311. 

is  the  exercise  of  saints,  1310. 
poor  they  are,  that  have  not, 

1303. 
thou  young  cherubim,  13)9. 
times  when,  proves  at  fault, 
1312. 
Patriots,  true,  all,  413. 
Pauper,  he's  only  a,  202. 
Peace,  a,  is  of  the  nature  of  a  con- 
quest, 1317. 
hath  her  victories,  1320. 
uproar  the  universal,  377. 
was  on  the  earth,  1321. 
weak  piping  time  of,  13 IS. 
why  prate  of,  1319. 
Pearls  at  random  strung,  1322. 
Pen,  dull  product  of  a  scoffer's, 
1324. 
is  mightier  than  the   sword, 
1323. 
People,  a  herd  confused,  1325. 
Perseverance  keeps  honor  bright, 

1328. 
Person,  what  's  a  fine,  530. 
Persuasion,  divine,  flows,  1329. 
Petitions,  petition  me  no,  1330. 
Phalanx,  they  move  in   perfect, 

1213. 
Phantom  of  delight,  527. 
Philosophy,  how  charming  is  di- 
vine, 1331. 
will  clip  an    angel's   wings, 
143;3. 
Physic,  take,  pomp,  1333. 

throw,  to  the  dogs,  1332. 
Piety,  a  trade,  1334. 
Pilot,  't  is  a  fearful  night,  1335. 
Pines,  silent  sea  of,  1336. 
Pipe  when    tipped   with   amber, 
1337. 


Pity  gave  ere  charity  began,  1339. 
is  the  virtue  of  the  law,  13:38. 
IMace,   fittest,    where    man    can 
die,  1340. 
give  me  the  lowest,  949. 
stands  upon  a  slippery,  471. 
Player,  a  strutting,  27. 
Playmates,  I  have  had,  311. 
Pleasure    and    action    make   the 
hours  seem  short,  21. 
and  revenge  more  deaf  than 

ad<lers,  1342. 
is  as  great,  303. 
must    succeed    to    pleasure, 

1344. 
to  e.vcess,  1343. 
with,  drugged,  1573. 
Pleasures  are  like  poppies  spread, 
1345. 
he  soothed  his  soul  to,  1346. 
that  to  verse  belong,  1352. 
Plough,  following  his,  301. 
Ploughman  homeward  plods,  450. 
Poet,  God  is  the  perfect,  1351. 
worships     without     reward, 
1350. 
Poetry,  men  are  cradled  into,  by 
wrong,  136:3. 
not,  that  makes   men   poor, 
1347. 
Poets  are  all  who  love,  1349. 

have  made  us  heirs,  135:3. 
Pole,  true  as  the   needle  to  the, 

1354. 
Poll,  flaxen  was  his,  152. 
Pomegranate,     from      Browning 

some,  8S7. 
Poppies,  with  rain,  overcharged, 

i;356. 
Possession    means  to  sit  astride 

of  the  world,  1360. 
Potations,  banish  long,  212. 
Povertv,   but  not  my  will,  con- 
sents, 1361. 
stood   smiling  in   my   sight, 
1364. 
Power,    thev    should    take   who 
have  the,  1366. 
what  can,  give,  1365. 
Prairie,  low  in  the  light  the,  lies, 

1367. 
Praise  from  a  friend,  285. 
Praising  what  is  lost,  1368. 


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359 


Prayer  incessant,  if  by,  1371. 

more  things  are  wrought  by, 
1374. 
Prayers,  God  answers  sharp  and 

sudden,  1373. 
Prayethbest  who  lovethbest,  1372. 
Preached  as  never  sure  to  preach 

again,  1375. 
Present  is  all  thou  hast,  1376. 
Press  the  people's  right  maintain, 
1377. 
turn  to  the,  1249. 
Priam's  self  shall  fall,  1542. 
Pride  hath  no  other  glass,  1378. 
that  apes  humility,  1379. 
that      putts     the     countrye 
doune.   343. 
Priest,  the  pale-eyed,  1380. 
this,  he  merry  is,  1916. 
Primrose,   a,  by  a  river's   brim, 
13S1. 
peeps  beneath  the  thorn,  35. 
Princes,  the  death  of,  16?. 

were  privileged  to  kill,  438. 
Prior,  here  hes  Matthew,  623. 
Prison  make,  stone  walls  do  not 

a,  13S4. 
Procrastination    is    the   thief  of 

time,  13S5. 
Prodigies,  when  these,  do  meet, 

13S6. 
Promise,  keep  the  word  of,  13SS. 
Promotion,  none  will  sweat  but 

for,  91. 
Proof,  give  me  the  ocular,  1389. 
Prose  run  mad,  1392. 

warbler  of  poetic,  1393. 
Proselytes  and  converts.  405. 

of  one  another's  trade,  1394. 
Prospects,    distant,     please     us, 

1-395. 
Prosperity,  surer  to  prosper  than, 

1397. 
Prosperity  's  the  Tery    bond   of 

love,  1396. 
Proteus  rising  from  the  sea,  937. 
Providence   all    good   and    wise, 
1400. 
alone  secures,  1401. 
behind  a  frowning,  656. 
I  may  assert  eternal,  1.399. 
there  's  a  special,  1.398. 
Prude,  yon  ancient,  1404. 


Prussia  hurried  to  the  field,  1669. 
Pulpit,  drum  ecclesiastick,  1405. 
Punishment,  back  to  thy,  1906. 
Puppets  led  about  by  wires,  530. 
Purity,  a  maid  in  the  pride  of 
'her,  1407. 

from  the  body's,  -339. 
Purpose,  shake  my  fell,  1408. 
Purse,  costly  as  thy,  can  buy,  94. 

who  steals  my,  14U9. 
Pyramids  are  pyramids,  1410. 

Quaker  loves  an  ample  brim,  1414. 
Quakers,  upright,  1413. 
Quarrel,  beware  of  entrance  to  a, 

1415. 
what  is  your,  399. 
Quarrels,  tliey  who  in,  interpose, 

1416. 
Quickness,  with  too  much,  1418. 
Quiet  to  quick  bosoms  is  a  hell, 

1419. 
Quiets  of  the  past,  1420. 
Quips  and  cranks,  1421. 
Quotations,      critics     sufiFer     in 

wrong,  1423. 

Rabble  all  alive,  1201. 

Pace,  he  lives  to  build  a  generous, 

1424. 
Rage,   could    swell  the  soul  to, 

1425. 
Rain  came  down  in  slanting  Hues, 
1429. 
comes  when  the  wind  calls, 

1428. 
how  beautiful  is  the,  1427. 
it  raineth  everv  dav,  1426. 
trickhng.  doth  fall,' 625. 
Rainbow,  an  awful.  1433. 
be  thou  the,  1391. 
colors  of  the,  356. 
comes  and  goes,  14.32. 
God  hath  set  his,  1253. 
Rank  is  but  the  guinea  stamp, 
1435. 
superior    worth     your,      re- 
quires. 1434. 
Rattle,  pleased  with  a,  308. 
Reader  reads  no  more,  1440. 
Reading,  such,  as  was  never  read, 

1441. 
Realms,  these  are  our,  1442. 


360 


INDEX    TO    QUOTATIONS. 


Ueason,  a  woman's,  1443. 
feast  of,  219. 

fuides  our  deeds,  990. 
would    make,    my    guide, 
1445. 
raise  o'er  instinct,  1444. 
sanctity  of,  1447. 
the  confidence  of,  pive,  1446. 
war  with  rhyme,  150S. 
Rebellion   begau   to  grow  slack. 
1449. 
froze  them  up,  144S. 
Rebutt',  then  welcome  each,  1450. 
Rebukes,   a    lady    so   tender   of, 

1451. 
iiechabite  poor  Will   must  live. 

69. 
Reckoning,  no,  made,  17. 

when   the    banquet   's    o'er, 
14.T2. 
Reconcilement,  never  can,  grow, 

1454. 
Records  that  defy  the   tooth  of 

time,  145.5. 
Recreation,  none  so  free  as  fish- 
ing, 1457. 
sweet,  barred,  1456. 
Reflection,     remembrance     and, 

1459. 
Reformation,  plotting  some  new, 

1460. 
Regret  can  die,  1461. 

wild  with  all,  1462. 
Reign,  to,  is  worth  ambition,  .576. 
Relief,  for  this,  much  thanks,  353. 
Religion   crowns   the  statesman, 
1465. 
has  so  seldom  found,  1466. 
in,  what  error,  1463. 
is  a  spring,  1464. 
stands  on  tiptoe,  1467. 
veils  her  sacred  fires,  1218. 
Remedies  oft  in  ourselves  do  lie, 

146S. 
Remember  the  fir  trees  dark  and 
hi-,'h,  1472. 
what    the    Lord   hath   done, 
1370. 
Remembered,  I  've  been  so  long, 

1471. 
Remembrance,  makes  the,  dear, 
1470. 
writ  in,  1469. 


Remorse  is  as  the  heart,  1473. 
Renown,  deathless  my,  1474. 
Repartee,  a  man  renowned  for, 

1475. 
Repentance  is  long,  1477. 
is  the  weight,  1478. 
rears  her  snaky  crest,  1479. 
who  by,  is  not' satisfied,  1476. 
Repose,  best  of  men  have  loved, 
14S0. 
in  statue-like,  1481. 
Reproaches,  slanderous,  1719. 
Reproof  on  her  lips,  14S;3. 
those  can  bear,  1482. 
Reputation,    at    every    word    a, 
dies,  544. 
seeking  the  bubble,  17.54. 
the  purest  treasure,  1464. 
Resignation  gently  slopes  away, 

14S7. 
Resolution,    the  native    hue    of, 

386. 
Respect  upon  the  world,  1489. 
Resi)ects  himself,  he  that,  16.33. 
Rest  is  sweet  after  strife,  1491. 
too  much,   becomes  a  pain, 
1492. 
Retirement,  0  blest,  149.5. 
Retiring  from  the  popular  noise, 

1494. 
Retreat,  a  brave,  1496. 
Revelry,    midnight    shout    and, 
1497. 
there  was  a  sound  of,  1498. 
Revenge,  back  on  itself  recoils, 

1500. 
Reverence,  none  so  poor  to  do 
him,  2.'>4. 
to  yond  peeping  moon,  1502. 
Revolution,  there  is  great  talk  of, 

1503. 
Rhetoric,  dear  wit  and  gay,  1.50.5. 
he  could  not  ope  his  mouth, 
1504. 
Rhetorician's,  a,  rules,  1932. 
Rhine,  the  river,  15ii7. 

the  wide  and  winding,  1506. 
Riiinoceros,  the  armed,  414. 
Rhvme.  build  the  loftv,  1509. 
■  hitches  in  a,  1996." 
the  rudder  is  of  verses,  1610. 
Rich,  if  thou  art,  thou  art  poor, 
2036. 


INDEX    TO    QUOTATIONS. 


3G1 


Rich  with  forty  pounds  a  year,  340. 
Riches  in  a  little  room,  1511. 

the  toil  of  fools,  1512. 
Ride,  a  wild  and  lotiely,  1T61. 
Ridicule  is  a  weak  weapon,  1513. 

sacred  to,  1514. 
Right  the  day  must  win,  1516. 

was  right,  1515. 

whatever  is,  is,  1517. 
River  glideth,  1520. 
Rivers,  by  shallow,  1518. 

how  they  run.  1519. 
Road,  on  a  lonesome,  70S. 
Robin,  call  for  the,  and  the  wren, 

1066. 
Rock,  moulder  piecemeal  on  the, 
1522. 

of  Ages,  1523. 

this,  shall  fly,  1524. 
Rod,  his,  reversed,  1525. 

to  check  the  erring,  593. 
Roman,  rather  be  a  dog  than  such 
a,  1527. 

the  noblest,  152S. 
Romance,  shores  of  old,  1530. 
Romances  paint  people's  wooings, 

1529. 
Rome,  aisles  of  Christian.  247. 

grandeur  that  was,  1531. 
Room,  who  sweeps  a,  24. 
Rose,  a.  should  shut,  1535. 

distilled.  2S3. 

looks  fair,  15=33. 

no  more  desire  a.  1532. 

salth    in    the    dewy     morn. 
1536. 

would  smell  as  sweet,  1242. 
Rosebuds,  gather  ye,  1914. 
Roses,    I    wish    the    sky   would 
rain,  15:34. 

in  December,  511. 

strew  on  her,  1537. 
Rousseau,  self-torturing  sophist, 

wild.  1.5:3s. 
Rout  on  rout,  3S3. 
Ruin,  fires  of,  glow.  1541. 

prodigious,      swallows      all, 
1542. 

seize  thee,  382. 

upon  ruin,  38-3. 
Ruins  of  himself,  507. 
Rumor  is  a  pipe,  1544. 
Rural  life,  pleasures  of  the,  1545. 


Sabbath  brings  its  release,  1550. 

eternal,  of  his  rest,  1549. 

he  who  ordained  the,  1547. 
Sailor,   a   drunken,    on   a   mast, 
1552. 

messmate,    hear    a    brother, 
15.54. 
Sails,  purple  the,  1555. 

that  drift  at  night,  1671. 
Saint,  a,  run  mad,  155S. 

in  crape,  108. 

John      mingles      with      my 
fi-iendly  bowl,  219. 

would  be,  the  devil  a,  .546. 
Saints  began  their  reign,  1557. 

immortal  reign.  1559. 

who  led  the  way  to  heaven, 
1.560. 

will  aid,  1561. 
Salt,  the,  is  spilt,  1562. 

who  ne'er  knew,  1564. 

why  shun  the,  156:3. 
Salutations  of  the  crowd,  1358. 
Salvation,  no  relish  of,  1565. 

none  of  us  should  see,  1.566. 
Sand,  an  heap  of  lime  and,  1.540. 
Sands,  come  unto  these  yellow, 
1567. 

ignoble  things,  1568. 

o'  Dee.  277. 
Sappho  loved  and  sung.  843. 
Satan,  arch-enemy,  called.  1569. 

finds    some    mischief    still, 
1570. 

stood  unterrify'd.  360. 

trembles  when  he  sees,  1571. 

was  now  at  hand.  445. 
Satire,  in  general,  1576. 

let,  be  my  song,  1575. 
Satire  's  my  weapon.  1574. 
Savage,  wild  in  woods,  1577. 
Saws,  full  of  wise,  1015. 
Scandal  them,  fawn  on  men,  and, 
1579. 

waits  on  greatest  state,  1578. 
Scars,    gashed    with     honorable. 
1582. 

he  jests  at,  1581. 
Scene,   solitary,    silent,    solemn, 

331. 
Scenes,  gay  gilded,  1583. 
Sceptic,  whatever,  could  inquire 
for,  loSo. 


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INDEX    TO    QUOTATIONS. 


Sceptre,  a  barren,  444. 

shows  the    force  of   power, 
15S6. 
Schemes,  our  most  romantic,  5S3. 
Scholar,  a  rijie  and  good,  1587. 

the  gentleman  and,  1588. 
Scholars,  the  land  of,  ir)8;». 
School,   the   master    taught    his, 

1591. 
School-boy,  the  whining,  1590. 
Schools,  bewildered  in  the  maze 

of,  481). 
Science  frowned  not  on  his  hum- 
ble birth,  1174. 
O  star-eyed,  159:3. 
trace,  then,  with  modesty  thy 
guide,  1592. 
Scorn  makes  after-love  the  more, 
1594. 
on  the  pedestal  of,  1596. 
the  sound  of  public,  1597. 
to  point  his  finger  at,  1595. 
Scotia,  my  native  soil,  1599. 
Scotland,   stands,    where  it  did, 

1593. 
Scotland's  strand,  fair,  1600. 
Scribblers  are  my  game,  1601. 
Scripture,  the  devil  can  cite,  1422. 
writ  by  God's  own  hand,  1002. 
Sculptor  wields  the  chisel,  1604. 
Sculpture  is  more  divine,  1003. 
Sea,  alone  on  a  wide,  71. 

compassed  by  the  inviolate, 

1607. 
down  to  a  sunless,  282. 
grew  civil  at  her  song,  1605. 
is  a  thief,  1521. 
puft  up  with  proud  disdaine, 

1882. 
sailed   upon   the  dark    blue. 

1556. 
the  blue,  the  fresh,  1006. 
when  the,  was  roaring,  IGOS. 
Seamen  on  the  deep,  155;3. 
Seas  roll  to  waft  me,  262. 
Seasons,' all  please  alike,  ICIl. 
in  four  forms  appear,  1610. 
return,  with  the  year,  1612. 
Seat,   a,    in    some   poetic    nook, 

1613. 
Secret,  a,  in  his  mouth,  1616. 
Sect,  slave  to  no,  1618. 

with  every,  agreed,  1617. 


Security  is  mortal's  chiefest  en- 
emy, 1619. 
Seed,  fruit  from  such  a,  1620. 

who  sowt'th  good,  1493. 
Self,  smote  the  chord  of,  319. 
something  deari-r  than,  1621. 
to  thine  own,  be  true,  211. 
Solf-concern,  in  others,  1629. 
Self-defence  is  a  virtue,  1625. 
8elf-disi)raise,  a  luxury  in,  1627. 
Self-esteem,  nothing  profits  more 

than, 1628. 
St'lf-love  is  not  so  vile  a  sin,  1630. 
Self-love,   the  spring  of  motion, 

1631. 
Self-reproach,  men  who  feel  no, 

16=32. 
Self-sacrifice,  the  spirit  of,  1634. 
Senates,  the   applause   of  listen- 
ing, 103. 
Sense,  good,  the  gift  of  heaven, 
16:36. 
motions  of  the,  1635. 
Sensibilities  are  so  acute,  1687. 
Sensibility,    thou    keen    delight, 

1038. 
September  waves  his  golden-rod, 

1040. 
Sermon,  perhaps  turn  out  a,  1(U2. 
Sermons  in  stones,  1641. 
Serpent,  like  Aaron's,  1645. 
of  old  Nile,  1644. 
sting  thee  twice,  ICAS. 
the  trail  of  the.  IWO. 
Serpent's  tooth,  sharper  than  a, 

985. 
Serve,  't  is  nobleness  to,  1&48. 
Service    devine,    she    sange   the, 
1W7. 
poorest,  is  repaid,  1893. 
small,  is  true  service,  769. 
Sex,  no  stronger  than  my,  1649. 
spirits    can    either,    assume, 
1650. 
Sexton,   hoary-headed  chronicle, 
1051. 
tolled  the  bell,  1652. 
Shadow  both  ways  falls,  1654. 

see  my,  as  I  pass,  165:3. 

Shaft,  when  I  had  lost  one,  1656. 

Sliakespeare,  Fancy's  child,  1660. 

on  whose  forehead,  1659. 

thou  art  a  monument,  1658. 


INDEX    TO    QUOTATIONS. 


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Shakespeare,  tongue  that,  spake, 
757. 

what  needs  my,  1661. 
Shame,  her  blush  of  maiden,  1663. 

where  is  thy  blush,  16C2. 
Shape,  if,  it  might  be  called,  1G65. 

take  any,  but  that,  1064. 
She  is  mine  own,  2044. 

waks  the  waters,  1672. 

was  a  form  of  life,  74S. 
Shell,  applying  to  his  ear  a,  1666. 
Shelley,  did  you  once  see,  1667. 
Shellsj  picking  up,  by  the  ocean, 

1251. 
Shepherd,   every,   tells  his   tale, 

sso. 

Sheridan,  hurrah  for,  1796. 

nature*  formed  but  one  .such 
man,  166S. 
Ship,  as  idle  as  a  painted,  1673. 

has  weathered  every  rack,  264. 

of  State,  1316. 

steer  a,  becalmed,  S2S. 
Ships  have  gone  down  at    sea, 

1941. 
Shore,  a  rapture  on  the  lonely, 
1679. 

left  their  beauty  on  the,  167S. 
Shot,  bounding  at  the,  17So. 

heard  round  the  world,  239. 
Show  and  gaze  o'  the  time,  16S1. 

books  and  money  placed  for, 
16S2. 
Shriek,  a  solitary,  62. 
Shrine,  a  faith's  pure,  16S3. 
Sickness,  this,  doth  infect,  16S4. 
Sighs,  a  world  of,  1685. 
Sight,  it  is  a  goodly,  16SS. 

lost  to,  to  memory  dear,  7. 

0  loss  of,  187. 

Silence  bewrays  more  woe,  1691. 

deep  as  death,  1694. 

is  the  herald  of  joy,  1690. 

more  musical  than  song,  1692. 

was  pleased,  1693. 

where   hath  been  no  sound, 
1695. 
Silver,  moon  that  tips  with,  1696. 
Simplicity,  in  his,  sublime,  1699. 

simple  truth  miscalled,  1698. 
Sin,  cut  otf  in  my,  1700. 

1  waive  the  quantum  o'  the, 
1704. 


Sin,  in  lashing,  1702. 

one,   another  doth  provoke, 

1701. 
the  good  man's,  1703. 
Sincerity,  showed  bashful,  1706. 
Sing  because  I  must,  1711. 

seraph,  poet.  1709. 
Singing,    all    my    heart    in    my, 

1710. 
Singularitv,  all  have  some  darling, 

1718. 
Sins  they  are  inclined  to,  1705. 
Sister,  when  1  was  but  your,  1714. 
Skill,    simple   truth    his   utmost, 

1715. 
Skin   not  colored  like  his  own, 

1723. 
Sky,   souls    are    ripened    in   our 
northern,  1717. 
the,  is  changed,  1718. 
the,  is  overcast,  1884. 
Slackness  breeds  worms,  250. 
Slander,  foulest  whelj)  of  sin,  1721. 
sharper  than  the  sword,  1720. 
Slave,  this  yellow.  1207. 
thou  art  a,  1722. 
whatever  day  makes  man  a, 
1725. 
Sleep  hath  its  own  world,  1731. 
he  giveth  his  beloved,  1733. 
life  is  rounded  with  a,  1727. 
O  magic,  1730. 
silent  as  night,  17-34. 
that   knits  "up    the    ravelled 

sleave  of  care,  1728. 
that     knows    not    breaking, 

1732. 
the  poor  man's  wealth,  1728. 
tired  nature's  sweet  restorer, 

1729. 
will  bring  thee  dreams,  1735. 
Slime  that  sticks  on  filthy  deeds, 

921. 
Sloth  views  the  towers  of  Fame, 

1736. 
Sluggard,  't  is  the   voice  of  the. 

1737. 
Smile,  and  be  a  villain.  1738. 

Death  grinned  a  ghastly,  1740. 
from  partial  beauty  won,  1741. 
that  was  childlike  and  bland, 

1739. 
the  good  man's,  1742. 


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Smiles,   the  tears,   of  boj-hood's 

years,  221. 
Smoke  that  so  gracefully  curled, 

]74,S. 
Snail,  creeping  like,  220. 

shrinks  backward,  1744. 
Snails,  her  feet  like,  fttO. 
Snake,    we    have    scotch'd    the. 

1745. 
Snow,  a  cheer  for  the,  1747. 
in  December,  174G. 
the.  arrives,  174S. 
Snow-drop,  the.  comes  on,  1749. 
Snutf,  he  only  took,  1750. 

prevent  your  ladyship  from 
taking,  1751. 
Society    became    my    glittering 
bride,  1753. 
man  in,  is  like  a  flower,  1752. 
one  polished  horde,  209. 
Softness    and    attractive    grace, 

397. 
Soldier,  full  of  oaths,  1754. 

he  would  have  been  a,  1755. 
shall  I  ask  the  brave,  436. 
the  broken,  1756. 
thou  more  than,  1757. 
Soles,  let  firm,  protect  thy  feet, 

1677. 
Solid  men  of  Boston,  212. 
Solitude    sometimes    is    society, 
1758. 
where  are  the  charms,  1759. 
Son,  a  booby,  176;}. 

no,  of  mine  succeeding,  1762. 
Song,  dear  to  gods  and   men  is 
sacred,  1766. 
forbids  deeds  to  die,  1712. 
higher  than  the  perfect,  ISSS, 
moralized  his,  1765. 
one  immortal,  1764. 
still  govern  thou  my,  120. 
Sonnet,  scorn  not  the,  1767. 
Sons  and  brothers  at  a  strife.  390. 
of   France,   awake   to  glory, 
S07. 
Sorrow  comes  too  soon,  1770. 
give,  words,  176S. 
hang,  270. 

one.  never  comes,  1769. 
Sorrow's  crown  of  sorrow,  1771. 
Sorrows,  tell  all  thy,  379. 
Sots,  what  can  ennoble,  82. 


Soul,  bruised  with  adversity,  SS. 
Charoba  once  possest,  263. 
discontented    with    capacity, 

26;3. 
tlow  of,  219. 

he  shall  not  blind  his,  338. 
is  as  free  as  the  stars,  1(W9. 
that  rises  with  us,  11^. 
the  depth  of  the,  1774. 
the  sleepless,  301. 
whither  went  his,  1772. 
Soul's,  the,  prerogative,  1773. 
Souls,    two,    with    but    a    ^inirle 

thought,  ly^il. 
Sound  must  seem  an  echo,  1775. 
Source  of  being,  hail,  522. 
Spain,  lovely,  1776. 
Sparrow,  providence  "in   the   fill 

of  a,  139S. 
Speak,  know  when  to,  42. 
Spear,  to  equal  the  tallest  pine, 

1777. 
Speculation  in  those  eyes,  795. 
Speech  is  but  broken  light,  1779. 

rude  in  my,  177S. 
Spenser,    fancy's    pleasing    son, 

17S0. 
Spires,   whose    finger    points    to 

heaven, 17S1. 
Spirit,  the  strongest,  that  fought 

in  heaven,  5S9. 
Spirits  from  the  vasty  deep,  17S2. 
Splendor  in  the  grass,  17S4. 
Spring,  come,  gentle,  17S7. 
first,  like  infancy.  1610. 
in  the,  a  livelieriris.  17S6. 
of  love  resembleth,  19S0. 
there's  no  such  season,  178'^. 
Springe,  she  sets  a,  407. 
Spur,  I  have  no.  75. 

to  prick  us  to  redress,  1458. 
Stage,  all  the  world  's  a,  1789. 
Star,  constant  as  the  northern, 
394. 
looks  forth  alone,  1793. 
Stars  have  lit  the  welkin  dome, 
714. 
keep  not  their  motion,  1790. 
of  the  night.  1791. 
shot      madly      from      their 

spheres.  1605. 
the  poetry  of  heaven,  1792. 
two  of  the  fairest,  644. 


INDEX    TO    QUOTATIOXS, 


365 


Starving,  who  longest  can  hold 

out  at,  615. 
State,  done  the,  some  service,  96. 
mock  the  air  with  idle.  3S5. 
thousand  years  scarce  form  a, 
179-1. 
Statesman  to  a  prince,  1795. 
Steed  that  saved  the  day,  1796. 
Steeples,  where  my  high,  1540. 
Step,  I  hear  that  creaking.  210. 
Stoics  boast  their  virtue  fixed,  93. 
Stones  of  Konie  to  rise,  1797. 
Storm,  against  some,  179S. 
rides  upon  the,  1799. 
under  the,  and  the  cloud,  371. 
Storms,  give  her  to  the  god  of, 

ISOO. 
story  of  my  life,  1801. 

teach  him  how  to   tell  my. 
ISO'2. 
Strangers,  by,  honored,  and  by 

strangers  mourned,  1803. 
Straw,  tickled  with  a,  SOS. 
Streets,  gibber   in    the    Roman, 

1804. 
Strength,    excellent    to    have    a 

giant's,  1S05. 
Strife,  no.  to  heal,  1807. 

the  madding  crowd's  ignoble, 
443. 
Strike,  for  vour  altars  and  vour 

fires,  1813. 
Striving  to  better,  oft  we  mar, 

1808. 
Strong,  to  be.  is  to  be  happy,  1806. 
Study  is  like  the  sun,  1809. 

is  the  trifling  of  the  mind, 
1810. 
Success,  life  lives  only  in,  1813. 
not  in  mortals  to  command, 

1814. 
things  ill  got  had  ever  bad, 
1S12. 
Suffering    ended    with    the  day, 
1481. 
to,  tears  are  due,  1815. 
Sufferings,  to  each  his.  378. 
Summer,  eternal,  gilds  them  yet, 
1818. 
grows  adult,  1610. 
Sun,  a,  will  pierce,  1S22. 

hath  made  a  golden  set,  1829. 
in  dim  eclipse,  607. 


Sun  is  going  down,  1832. 

the  descending,  1831. 

the  glorious,  1820. 

the,  is  set,  633. 

the  worshipped,  peered  forth, 
601. 

unruly,  1821. 

upon  an  Easter-day,  467. 
Sunday  shines  no  Sabbath-day, 
"1548. 

take,  through  the  week,  1551. 
Sunflower,  light  enchanted,  1S23. 

shining  fair,  1S26. 

the.  turns  on  her  god,  1824. 
Sunflowers  blow  in  a  glow,  1S25. 
Suns  to  light  nie  rise,  262. 
Sunset,    the    wondrous    golden, 

1S30. 
Sunshine  broken  in  the  rill,  1834. 

eternal,  settles  on  its  head, 341. 

is  a  glorious  birth,  S06. 

see  the  gold,  1S33. 

shall  follow  the  rain,  371. 
Surfeit  is  the  father  of  fast,  1835. 
Surprise,    mouth    that    testified, 

1S30. 
Suspense,  a  cool,  1837. 
Suspicion  haunts  the  guilty  mind, 

1838. 
Swain,  remote  from  cities  lived 

a,  781. 
Swallow-people,  play  the,  1839. 
Swan,  cygnet  to  this  pale  faint, 
754. 

spreads  his  snowv-  sail,  1050. 

with  arched  neck',  1840. 
Swears  a  prayer  or  two,  1841. 
Sweet,  things,  to  taste.  1843. 
Sweetness,  of  linked.  ISW. 
Swiftness  never  ceasing,  1846. 
Swimmer  in  his  agony,  62. 
Swimmer's,  a,  stroke,  1847. 
Sword,  a  naked,  18*9. 

thy  maiden,  1848. 
Symbol  of  hunger,  2081. 
Sympathy  of  love,  1850. 

there' "s  naught  like,  1851. 
Synods  are  mystical  bear-gardens, 
1852. 

Tale,  a  round  unvarnished,  1855. 
I  could  a,  unfold.  1854. 
who  so  shall  tell  a,  1863. 


3G6 


INDEX    TO    QUOTATIONS. 


Talk,  it  would,  1861. 

they,  who  never  think,  1859. 

to  conceal  the  mind,  ISGO. 
Talkers  are  no  f?ood  doers,  1857. 
Talking,  I  profess  not,  5. 
Tasso,     their    n\ovy     and     their 

shame,  1SG2. 
Tasso's  echoes  are  no  more,  1994. 
Taste,  good  native,  1SC4. 

talk  what  you  will  of,  1863. 
Tastes,  various  are  the,  1865. 
Taxes,  at,  rails,  1S67. 
Tea,  sometimes  take,  411. 

without  a  stratagem,  1S69. 
Teaching  and  my  authority,  1SG9. 
Tear  wiped  with  a  little  address, 

80. 
Tears  and  love  for  the  Gray,  1878. 

beauty's,  are  lovelier,  1877. 

idle  tears,  1S76. 

more  merry,  1191. 

of  bearded  men,  1874. 

our  present,  1S72. 

stood  on  her  cheeks,  1871. 

such  as  angels  weep,  1S73. 

the  big  round,  1S70. 

thoughts  too  deep  for,  1875. 
Temper,  man  of  such  a  feeble, 

1879. 
Temperate  in  every  place,  1880. 
Tempers,     strange     how     some 

men's,  566. 
Tempest,  foretells  a,  18S1. 
Temptation,  safe  from,  1887. 

why  comes,  1957. 
Terror,    there    is    no,    in    your 

threats,  1S90. 
Test,  bring  me  to  the,  1S91. 
Text,  many  a  holy,  1892. 
Thane,  your  face,  my,  653. 
Thanks  to  men  of  noble  minds, 

1894. 
Theatre,  as  in  a,  1S95. 

the  world  's  a,  28. 
Thief,  steals  from  the,  1896. 

the  sun  *s  a,  1521. 
Thieves  and  pillagers,  177. 
Thing,  evil,  that  walks  by  night, 
797. 

made  up  of  tears  and  light, 
1431. 
Things  a  wise  man  will  not  trust, 
974. 


Things,  ail,  are  ready,  29. 

are  where  things  are,  681. 
Thinking,  witli  too  much,  1418. 
Thirst,  tliat  panting,  1^97. 
Thorn  that   scents    the    evening 
gale,  763. 

why    choose     the    rankling, 
1898. 
Thought  is  deeper  than  speech, 
1903. 

is  eternal,  1900. 

no,  should  be  untold,  1901. 

of  our  {mst  years,  174. 
•    wed  with  thought,  1902. 

what  is  this,  160. 
Thoughts   of  men   are  widened, 
1387. 

our,  are  ours,  1899. 

too  deep  for  tears,  1875. 
Thread,  sewing  a  double,  1904. 
Thrift,  thrift,  Horatio,  1907. 

may  follow  fawning,  690. 
Throne  of  royal  state,  1908. 
Thunder,  idle,  in  his  hand,  1909. 

leaps  the  live,  1910. 
Tide  in  the  affairs  of  men,  1912. 

the  turning  o'  the,  1911. 
Tiger,  the  Ilyrcanian,  414. 
Tile,  in  cut  and  die  so  like  a,  ir)3. 
Time,  away  and  mock  the,  56S. 

doth  waste  me,  1913. 

threefold  the  stride  of,  1915. 
Titles  are  jests,  1917. 

are  marks    of  honest    men, 
1918. 

despite  those,  1622. 
Toad,  squat  like  a,  1919. 

ugly  and  venomous,  37. 
Tobacco,  sublime,  1920. 
To-day,  call,  his  own,  1921. 

our  cares  are  all,  1922. 
Toe,  on  the  light,  fantastic,  468. 
Toil,  the  horny  hands  of,  1923. 
Tomb,    from    the,   nature    cries, 

1924. 
Tombs,  gilded,  worms  infold,  97. 
To-morrow,  and  to-morrow,  1925. 

comes,  1927. 

where  art  thou,  beloved,  1923. 
To-morrow's  sun  may  never  rise, 

1926. 
Tongue,   a   good,    in    thy    head, 
1929. 


iXDEX    TO    QUOTATIOXS. 


3G7 


Tongue,  his,  dropt  manna,  610. 

in  every  wound,  1797. 

let  the."  lick  pomp,  1930. 

still  his,  ran  on,  1S5S. 

that  5^ hakes peare  spake,  757. 

who  dare  dishonor  the,  1931. 
Tongues  in  trees,  37. 

of  dying  men,  119. 
Toothache,    could    endure    the, 

19*3. 
Torrent,  the  loud,  1934. 
Torture,  waters  boil  in  endless, 

1935. 
Towers  and  battlements,  1936. 

the  cloud-capped,  569. 
Town,  man  made  the,  1937. 
Toys,  seeks  fantastic,  193S. 
Trade's  proud  empire,  1940. 

unfeeling  train,  1939. 
Train,  a  melancholy,  342. 
Tranquillity,  heaven  was  all,  1941. 
Trash,  wring  from  peasants  their, 

1S66. 
Traveller,  now  spurs  the,  1942. 
Travellers  must  be  content,  1943. 
Travelling,  in,  I  take   pleasures. 

1944. 
Treason  doth  never  prosper,  1947. 

flourished  over  us,  1945. 

is  not  owned,  1948. 
Treasons,  stratagems,  and  spoils, 

1235. 
Treasure,  heaps  of  miser's,  1949. 
Tree,  corruption  is  a,  403. 

dark,  still  sad,  460. 

fruit  of  that  forbidden,  563. 
Trees,   a  brotherhood   of  vener- 
able, 105:3. 

can  smile  in  light,  1950. 

mine  ease  under  the,  741. 

the  lives  of.  ISll. 
Trial,  we  learn  through,  1954. 
Tribe,  the  daring,  compound  their 

trash.  1412. 
Tricks  that  are  vain.  433. 
Tritie,  think  nought  a,  1956. 
Triries  make  the  sura  of  human 

things,  1955. 
Trouble,  double  toil  and,  195S. 
Trust  thee,  so  far  will  I,  3S0. 
Truth  and  lovaltv.  705. 

beauty  is,  1969. 

crushed  to  earth,  1962, 


Truth    forever    on   the   scaffold, 
1970. 

has  sucb  a  face,  1964. 

hath  better  deeds  than  words, 
1301. 

is  one,  1966. 

is  the  his-hest  thing,  1960. 

is  truth,  1967. 

no  cleaner  thing  than  love, 
196S. 

severe,  by  fairy  fiction,  704. 

tell,  and  shame'the  devil,  1961. 

whispering       tongues       can 
poison,  .395. 
Tulip,  then  comes  the,  1971. 
Turf,  green  be  the.  1973. 
Turk,  like  the,  1974. 
Twig  is  bent,  the  tree  's  inclin'd, 

609. 
Twilight,  disastrous,  sheds,  607. 

fell  upon  the  sea,  1976. 

grav.  1975. 
Twins  from  the  birth,  6S3. 
Tyranny  of  blood  and  chains,  1979. 
Tyrants  seem  to  kiss,  1977. 

'twixt  kings  and,  197S. 

Unction,  flattering,  to  your  soul, 

52S. 
Unfortunate,  one  more,  1433. 
Union,  strong  and  great,  1316. 
Unity,  confound  all,  377. 
Urania  govern  thou  my  song,  120. 
Urn,  has  filled  his,  36o. 
Use  doth  breed  a  habit  in  a  man, 

457. 
things  beyond  all,  19S3. 
Utter  what  thou  dost  not  know, 

1615. 

Vale  of  vears,  decHned  into  the, 

54". 
Valentine,  couple  with  my,  19S5. 
Valiant  never  taste  of  death,  426. 
Valor,  fear  to  do  base  things  is, 
19S6. 

shows  but  a  bastard.  1S17. 
Vanity,  insatiate  cormorant,  19S7. 

what  will  not,  maintain,  1983. 
Vapor,  as  a.  all  doth  vanish,  1224. 

melting  in  a  tear,  19S9. 
Varietv.  order  in.  (>4. 
Variety  's  the  spice  of  life,  1990. 


368 


INDEX    TO    QUOTATIOXS. 


Vault,  heaven's  ebon,  1991. 
Vengeance,  in,  there  is  scorn, 1992. 

to  God  alone  belongs,  1501. 
Venice,  I  stood  in,  199:3. 
Ventures,  lose  our,  45;3. 
Verse,  a,  may  find  him,  1348. 

married  to  immortal,  1844. 

sweetens  toil,  1997. 
Vessel,  a  brave,  1(574. 

splitting,  on  the  rock,  1675. 
Vessels  large  may  venture,  281. 
Vice,    a,    good    old-gentlemanly, 
133. 

can  bolt  her  arguments,  1999. 

from  no  one,  exempt,  398. 

is  a  monster,  2000. 

there  is  no,  so  simple,  1993. 
Victory,  graced  with  wreaths  of, 
2001. 

It  was  a  famous,  2002. 
Villain,  a,  in  all  Denmark,  1033. 

one  murder  made  a,  43S. 

which  is  the,  20i»5. 
Villas,  suburban,  2i)04. 
Vine,  monarch  of  the,  2006. 
Vines  that  round  the  thatch-eaves 

run,  127. 
Violet  by  a  mossy  stone,  2007. 

throw  a  perfume  on  the,  tWS. 
Violets,  when  sweet,  sicken,  2008. 
Virginity,    hath    hurtful     power 

o'er,  797. 
Virtue,  assume  a,  2012. 

calumny  will  sear,  257. 

may  be  assailed,  2013. 

starves  while  vice  is  fed,  2014. 

that    possession    would    not 
show  us,  1359. 
Virtues,  their,  we  write  in  water, 
2011. 

which  in  parents  shine,  81. 
Vision,  a  faery,  356. 

in  solemn,  2015. 
Visions  of  glory,  1687. 
Visit,  annual,  o'er  the  globe,  366. 
Voice,  her,  was  ever  soft,  2016. 
Vows,  lovers',  seem  sweet,  2018. 

made  in  pain,  600. 

may  be  broken,  2017. 
Vulcan  his  office  plies,  1061. 

Wagers,  fools  for  arguments  use, 
2019. 


Walks  abroad,  whene'er   I   take 
my,  2021. 

echoing,  between,  2020. 
Waller  was  smooth,  589. 
Want  gives  to  know  the  friend, 

1362. 
War,  grim-visaged,  2023. 

is  a  game,  2024. 

is  a  terrible  trade,  2026. 

is  still  the  cry,  2025. 

then  was  the  tug  of,  844. 

thou  son  of  hell,  2022. 

to  provoke,  1402. 
Wardens  of  your  farms,  177. 
Warrior,  he  lay  like  a,  2028. 
Washington  's  a  watchword,  2029, 
Water,  smooth  runs  the,  2030. 

what  good,  is  worth,  2031. 
Wave,  a  life  on  the  ocean,  2(W3. 

is  breaking  on  the  shore,  1252. 

so  dies  a,  2032. 
Wav,  the  heaven's  pathless,  2034. 
Ways  that  are  dark,  433. 
Weakness,  all  wickedness  is,  2035. 
Web,  a  tangled,  we  weave,  .509. 
Wedding,    never,    ever   wooing, 

723. 
Weed,  a,  tossed  to  and  fro,  1609. 
Weeds,  dank  and  dropping,  2038. 
Weep,  women  must,  2105. 
Weight,  I  give  this  heavy,  3. 
Welcome  to  our  house,  2039. 
Welcomes,  a  hundred  thousand, 

2040. 
Wheels  of  weary  life  stood  still, 

344. 
Whim,  let  every  man  enjoy  his, 

978. 
Whistled  as  he  went,  1984. 
Whole,  all  are  parts  of  one,  811. 
Wickedness,  a  method  in  man's, 

2042. 
Widows,  may,  wed,  2043. 
Wife  by  her  "husband  stays,  2046. 

this  sweet  wee,  2047. 

unclouded  welcome  of  a,  2048. 
Will,  executes  a  freeman's,  2050. 
Willow,  willow,  willow,  2051. 
Wind  is  rising,  205:3. 

more    inconstant    than    the, 
.581. 

of  western  birth,  2054. 

the,  of  night,  2055. 


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Wind,  the  southern,  1881. 

what,  blew  you  hither,  2052. 
Windows  that  exclude  the  light, 

2056. 
Wine  can  make  the   sage   frolic, 
205S. 
makes  love  forget,  2057. 
Wing,  this  sail  is  as  a  noiseless, 

2059. 
Wings,    at    heaven's    gates    she 

claps  her,  20C0. 
Winter  chills  the  lap  of  May,  206i. 
comes  to  rule,  2nG2. 
creeps  along  with  tardv  pace, 

1610. 
has  yet  brighter  scenes,  2063. 
of  our  discontent,  2061. 
the  silver  pencil  of  the,  2065. 
Wisdom  and  fortune,  2066. 
Wisdom's  self  oft  seeks,  2069. 

well,  the  stream  from.  2068. 
Wise,  't  is  folly  to  be,  963^ 
to-dav,  be,  525. 
what'is  it  to  be,  2067. 
Wish  was  father  to  that  thought, 

2070. 
Wishes  lengthen  as  our  sun  de- 
clines, 2071. 
Wit,  a  mouse's.  2072. 

brevity  the  soul  of,  235. 

I  have  neither,  195. 

is  out,  when  age  is  in,  51. 

men  famed  for,  2075. 

on  the   -wings   of   borrowed, 

2076. 
will  shine,  252. 
Wit 's,  a.  a  feather,  922. 

an  unruly  engine.  2073. 
Wits  are  to  liiadness  allied,  2074. 
Wives  may  be  merry,  2(>45. 
Woe  doth  tread   upon  another's 
heel,  119S. 
the  deepest  notes  of,  20S0. 
trappings  and  the  suits  of, 
2078. ' 
Woes,  rare  are  solitary,  2079. 

that  wait  on  age,  59. 
Woman,   earth's    noblest   thing, 
20SS. 
in  our  hours  of  ease,  2090. 
lovely,  stoops  to  folly,  733. 
mixed  of  such  fine  elements, 
2092. 


Woman,  nothing  lovelier  in,  2084. 

she  is  a,  422. 

80  she  's  good,  2089. 

that  deliberates  is  lost,  2091. 

we  had  been  brutes  without 
you,  20S5. 

we  will  work  for  a,  2093. 
Woman  's  a  contradiction   still, 
20S7. 

will,  torrent  of  a,  20S6. 
Women  are  as  roses,  2082. 

honor  to,  2083. 

should  never  be  dated,  58. 
Wonder,  it  gives  me,  1170. 

of  an  hour,  2094. 
Woodland,   like  a  human  mind, 

2095. 
Woodman,  spare  that  tree,  2096. 
Woods  are  an  ever-new  delight, 
741. 

whispered  it  to  the,  2097. 
Word  in  season  spoken,  231. 
Words,  a  dearth  of.  404. 

are  no  deeds,  209S. 

are  things,  2102. 

chaste,  from  a  bashful  mind, 

have  power  to  assuage,  2100. 

immodest,  admit  no  defence, 
512. 

never  to  heaven  go,  2099. 

our,  have  wings,  2101. 
Wordsworth's     healing     power, 

2103. 
Work,  free  men  freely,  2104. 

men  must,  2105. 

there  is  always,  1923. 
Workmen,  when,  strive,  424. 
World,  bestride  the  narrow.  356. 

I  have  not  loved  the,  2110. 

is  all  a  fleeting  show,  2109. 

service  of  the  antique,  91. 

this  pendent.  210S. 

too  much  respect  upon  the, 
2107. 

uncertain   comes    and   goes, 
191. 
World  's,  the,  a  theatre,  28. 
Worm,   the  smallest,   will  turn, 

2111. 
Worship  without  words,  2112. 
Worth,  courage,  honor,  296. 

makes  the  man,  2113. 


370 


INDEX    TO    QUOTATIONS. 


Wound,  willing  to,  2115 
Wounds,  binll  up  my,  2114. 

Wfjit  o'er  his,  707. 
Wrath,  .\chilles',  2117. 

come  not  within  my,  21IC. 
Wri-alhs,  victorious.  211S. 
Wre.ks.  a  thousand  fearful,  2119. 
Wretch,  a  needy,  2120. 

an  inhuman,  440 
Wretches     hang     that    jurymen 
may  dine,  95tJ. 
that    depend    on    greatness' 
favor,  6s9. 
Wrinkle,  what  stamps  the,  59, 
Write,  you,  with  case.  2121 
Writing  well,  nature's  chief  mas- 
terpiece, 2122. 
Wrong   forever    on   the   throne, 
1970. 
on,    swift   vengeance   waits, 
2123. 
Wrongs  unredressed,  2124. 


Xerxes  did  die,  2125. 

Years  following  years,  2127. 

I    sigh    not    over    vanished, 
212v 

none  would  live  past,  2129. 

the  accomplishment  of.  2120. 
Yesterday,  oh.  call  back,  2130. 

the  word  of  Ca-sar  might,  254. 
Yew.  hails  me  to  yonder,  548. 

old,  which  praspest,  2181 
Y'outh,  home  keeping,  2183. 

how  beautiful  is.  2135. 

how  buoyant  are  thv  hopes, 
2134. 

lost  days  of  our,  1306. 

no  less  becomes,  2132. 

on  the  prow,  2136. 

Zeal.  his.  none  seconded,  2188. 
served  my  God  with,  2137. 
Zealots,  graceless,  fight,  663. 


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